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Silent voices [[electronic resource] ] : forgotten novels by Victorian women writers / / edited by Brenda Ayres
| Silent voices [[electronic resource] ] : forgotten novels by Victorian women writers / / edited by Brenda Ayres |
| Autore | Ayres Brenda |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, CT, : Praeger, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823/.8099287 |
| Collana | Contributions in women's studies |
| Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism |
| Soggetto non controllato |
English Fiction
Women And Literature Literary Criticism |
| ISBN |
1-282-40782-1
9786612407826 0-313-03931-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. ""Not the Superiority of Belief, but Superiority of True Devotion"": Grace Aguilar's Histories of the Spirit; 2. The Victorian Heroine Goes A-Governessing; 3. The Detective Maidservant: Catherine Crowe's Susan Hopley; 4. Deathbeds and Didacticism: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna and Victorian Social Reform Literature; 5. Class Counts: The Domestic-Professional Writer, the Working Poor, and Middle-Class Values in The Years That the Locust Hath Eaten and The Story of a Modern Woman
6. On the Face of the Waters: Flora Annie Steel and the Politics of Feminist Imperialism7. Re-reading the Domestic Novel: Anne Thackeray's The Story of Elizabeth; 8. ""I Am Not Esther"": Biblical Heroines and Sarah Grand's Challenge to Institutional Christianity in The Heavenly Twins; 9. Dinah Mulock Craik: Sacrifice and the Fairy-Order; 10. Marie Corelli: ""The Story of One Forgotten""; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778425603321 |
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A Vindication of the Redhead : The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts / / by Brenda Ayres, Sarah E. Maier
| A Vindication of the Redhead : The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts / / by Brenda Ayres, Sarah E. Maier |
| Autore | Ayres Brenda |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina |
809
809.93353 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 19th century
Literature, Modern - 20th century Literature, Modern - 21st century Literature - History and criticism Clothing and dress - Social aspects Human body in popular culture Goth culture (Subculture) Civilization - History Nineteenth-Century Literature Contemporary Literature Literary Criticism Fashion and the Body Gothic Studies Cultural History |
| ISBN |
9783030835156
3030835154 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: "Hair is the Woman's Glory"-Unless It's Red -- 2. The Devil Has Red Hair: And So Do Other Dissemblers in Judeo-Christian Narratives -- 3. "Real Are the Dreams": Red Hairy Incubi and Unheavenly Succubi -- 4. Les Roux Fatales: The Plaits of Pre-Raphaelite Redheads -- 5. The Agency of Red Hair on the Mage Gender Equivocal in Mr. Rochester, The Little Stranger, The Danish Girl, and Elsewhere -- 6. "Here we are again!" Red-haired Golems Galore Including Those in Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem -- 7. Tangled Webs of Red Hair from the Grimm Brothers to Kate Morton -- 8. The Other Redheads Throughout Asia and Africa -- 9. Tough Little Red-Headed Orphans: Anne (of Green Gables), Little Orphan Annie, Madeline, and Pippi -- 10. Rebellious Royals: From Disney's Ariel to Pixar's Merida -- 11. Neo-Victorian Freakery: Flaming-Haired Women, Art, Dolls, and Detection -- 12. STEAM(y) and Marvel(ous) Women: Agent Scully, Lisbeth Salander, Beth Harmon and the Black Widow -- 13. Epilogue: The Splitting of Red Hairs. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910513583103321 |
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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