The "improper" feminine [[electronic resource] ] : the women's sensation novel and the new woman writing / / Lyn Pykett |
Autore | Pykett Lyn |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.8099287 |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism
Feminism and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism Femininity in literature Fiction - Authorship - Sex differences Sensationalism in literature Sex role in literature Sex in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-415-86206-X
0-203-35920-8 1-134-94483-7 1-280-07187-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; THE 'IMPROPER' FEMININE: The Women's Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing; Copyright; Contents; Introductory note; Part I The 'Improper' Feminine; 1 Gender and writing, writing and gender; 2 The subject of Woman; 3 The subject of Woman and the subject of women's fiction; 4 Fiction and the feminine: a gendered critical discourse; 5 Fiction, the feminine and the sensation novel; 6 Representation and the feminine: engendering fiction in the 1890's; Part II The Sentimental and Sensational Sixties: The Limits of the Proper Feminine
7 Historicising genre (1): the cultural moment of the woman's sensation novel 8 Surveillance and control: women, the family and the law; 9 Spectating the Social Evil: fallen and other women; 10 Reviewing the subject of women: the sensation novel and the 'Girl of the Period'; 11 Historicising genre (2): sensation fiction, women's genres and popular narrative forms; 12 Mary Elizabeth Braddon: the secret histories of women; 13 Ellen Wood: secret skeletons in the family, and the spectacle of women's suffering; Part III Breaking the Bounds: The Improper Feminine and the Fiction of the New Woman 14 The New Woman 15 The New Woman writing and some marriage questions; 16 Writing difference differently; 17 Feeling, motherhood and True Womanhood; 18 Woman's 'affectability' and the literature of hysteria; 19 Writing women: writing woman; 20 New Woman: new writing; Conclusion: reading out women's writing; Notes; Works referred to; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451236803321 |
Pykett Lyn | ||
London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The "improper" feminine [[electronic resource] ] : the women's sensation novel and the new woman writing / / Lyn Pykett |
Autore | Pykett Lyn |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.8099287 |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism
Feminism and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism Femininity in literature Fiction - Authorship - Sex differences Sensationalism in literature Sex role in literature Sex in literature |
ISBN |
0-415-86206-X
0-203-35920-8 1-134-94483-7 1-280-07187-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; THE 'IMPROPER' FEMININE: The Women's Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing; Copyright; Contents; Introductory note; Part I The 'Improper' Feminine; 1 Gender and writing, writing and gender; 2 The subject of Woman; 3 The subject of Woman and the subject of women's fiction; 4 Fiction and the feminine: a gendered critical discourse; 5 Fiction, the feminine and the sensation novel; 6 Representation and the feminine: engendering fiction in the 1890's; Part II The Sentimental and Sensational Sixties: The Limits of the Proper Feminine
7 Historicising genre (1): the cultural moment of the woman's sensation novel 8 Surveillance and control: women, the family and the law; 9 Spectating the Social Evil: fallen and other women; 10 Reviewing the subject of women: the sensation novel and the 'Girl of the Period'; 11 Historicising genre (2): sensation fiction, women's genres and popular narrative forms; 12 Mary Elizabeth Braddon: the secret histories of women; 13 Ellen Wood: secret skeletons in the family, and the spectacle of women's suffering; Part III Breaking the Bounds: The Improper Feminine and the Fiction of the New Woman 14 The New Woman 15 The New Woman writing and some marriage questions; 16 Writing difference differently; 17 Feeling, motherhood and True Womanhood; 18 Woman's 'affectability' and the literature of hysteria; 19 Writing women: writing woman; 20 New Woman: new writing; Conclusion: reading out women's writing; Notes; Works referred to; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784077103321 |
Pykett Lyn | ||
London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The "improper" feminine : the women's sensation novel and the new woman writing / / Lyn Pykett |
Autore | Pykett Lyn |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.8099287 |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism
Feminism and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism Femininity in literature Fiction - Authorship - Sex differences Sensationalism in literature Sex role in literature Sex in literature |
ISBN |
0-415-86206-X
0-203-35920-8 1-134-94483-7 1-280-07187-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; THE 'IMPROPER' FEMININE: The Women's Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing; Copyright; Contents; Introductory note; Part I The 'Improper' Feminine; 1 Gender and writing, writing and gender; 2 The subject of Woman; 3 The subject of Woman and the subject of women's fiction; 4 Fiction and the feminine: a gendered critical discourse; 5 Fiction, the feminine and the sensation novel; 6 Representation and the feminine: engendering fiction in the 1890's; Part II The Sentimental and Sensational Sixties: The Limits of the Proper Feminine
7 Historicising genre (1): the cultural moment of the woman's sensation novel 8 Surveillance and control: women, the family and the law; 9 Spectating the Social Evil: fallen and other women; 10 Reviewing the subject of women: the sensation novel and the 'Girl of the Period'; 11 Historicising genre (2): sensation fiction, women's genres and popular narrative forms; 12 Mary Elizabeth Braddon: the secret histories of women; 13 Ellen Wood: secret skeletons in the family, and the spectacle of women's suffering; Part III Breaking the Bounds: The Improper Feminine and the Fiction of the New Woman 14 The New Woman 15 The New Woman writing and some marriage questions; 16 Writing difference differently; 17 Feeling, motherhood and True Womanhood; 18 Woman's 'affectability' and the literature of hysteria; 19 Writing women: writing woman; 20 New Woman: new writing; Conclusion: reading out women's writing; Notes; Works referred to; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825392603321 |
Pykett Lyn | ||
London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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