Victorian women's fiction : marriage, freedom and the individual / / Shirley Foster
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| Autore: |
Foster Shirley
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| Titolo: |
Victorian women's fiction : marriage, freedom and the individual / / Shirley Foster
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| Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823.8093543 |
| Soggetto topico: | English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
| Women in literature | |
| Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
| English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism | |
| Psychological fiction, English - History and criticism | |
| Social psychology in literature | |
| Marriage in literature | |
| Liberty in literature | |
| Note generali: | First published in 1985 by Croom Helm. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front Cover; New: Victorian Women's Fiction RLE; New: Copyright Page; Old: Victorian Women's Fiction RLE; Old: Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introductory: Women and Marriage in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England; 2. Dinah Mulock Craik: Ambivalent Romanticism; 3. Charlotte BrontХе: A Vision of Duality; 4. Elizabeth Sewell: The Triumph of Singleness; 5. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Wife's View; 6. George Eliot: Conservative Unorthodoxy; Select Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women's fiction shows how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and the often more attractive alternative of single or professional life. In arguing that the tensions and dualities of their work represent the honest confrontation of their own ambivalence rather than attempted conformity to convention, it calls for a fresh look at patterns of im |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Victorian women's fiction |
| ISBN: | 1-136-32180-2 |
| 1-283-58553-7 | |
| 9786613897985 | |
| 0-203-12053-1 | |
| 1-136-32181-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785795603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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Routledge library editions. . -Women, feminism and literature.