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Victorian women's fiction : marriage, freedom and the individual / / Shirley Foster



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Autore: Foster Shirley Visualizza persona
Titolo: Victorian women's fiction : marriage, freedom and the individual / / Shirley Foster Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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.: 9910828675703321
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Serie: Routledge library editions. . -Women, feminism and literature.