Odd Women? : spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s-1930s

• Autore: Liggins Emma
• Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 810/820
• Soggetto topico: English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism; Women in literature; Single women in literature; Widows in literature; Lesbians in literature; English; Languages & Literatures; English Literature
• Classificazione: HG 431; HL 2045; HL 2865; HM 4815
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Female redundancy, widowhood and the mid-Victorian heroine -- Bachelor girls, mistresses and the New Woman heroine -- Spinster heroines, aunts and widowed mothers, 1910-39 -- The misfit lesbian heroine of inter-war fiction -- Professional spinsters, older women and widowed heroines in the 1930s.
• Sommario/riassunto: Women outside marriage between 1850 and the Second World War were seen as abnormal, threatening, superfluous and incomplete, whilst also being hailed as 'women of the future'. Before 1850 odd women were marginalised, minor characters, yet by the 1930s spinsters, lesbians and widows had become heroines. This book considers how Victorian and modernist women's writing challenged the heterosexual plot and reconfigured conceptualisations of public and private space in order to valorise female oddity.
• Titolo autorizzato: Odd Women? : spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s-1930s
• ISBN: 1-78170-685-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154309603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II