British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 1 : 1840s and 1850s / / edited by Adrienne E. Gavin, Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 pages) |
Disciplina | 820.99287 |
Collana | British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern—19th century
Fiction Poetry British literature Nineteenth-Century Literature Poetry and Poetics British and Irish Literature |
ISBN | 3-319-78226-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Adrienne E. Gavin and Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton -- 2. ‘Pleasant, easy work, -& not useless, I hope’: Harriet Martineau as a Children’s Writer of the 1840s: Valerie Sanders -- 3. ‘Powerful beyond all question’: Catherine Crowe’s Novels of the 1840s: Ruth Heholt -- 4. Women in Service: Private Lives and Labour in Mary Howitt’s Work and Wages: Erin D. Chamberlain -- 5. Confronting the 1840s: Christian Johnstone in Criticism and Fiction: Joanne Wilkes -- 6. Jane Eyre, Orphan Governess: Narrating Victorian Vulnerability and Social Change: Tamara S. Wagner -- 7. ‘I was in the condition of mind to be shocked at nothing’: Losing the Plot in Wuthering Heights: Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton -- 8. Anne Brontë: An Unlikely Subversive: Kristin A. Le Veness -- 9. The Female Voice and Industrial Fiction: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton: Carolyn Lambert -- 10. The Age of the Female Novelist: Single Women as Writers of Fiction: Sharon Connor -- 11. ‘Excluded from a woman’s natural destiny’: Disability and Femininity in Dinah Mulock’s Olive and Charlotte M. Yonge’s The Daisy Chain: Clare Walker Gore -- 12. ‘The eatables were of the slightest description’: Consumption and Consumerism in Cranford: Anne Longmuir -- 13.‘There never was a mistress whose rule was milder’: Sadomasochism and Female Identity in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette: Abigail Boucher -- 14. Cultivating King Arthur: Women Writers and Arthurian Romance in the 1850s: Katie Garner -- 15. ‘[T]he work of a she-devil’: Sensation Fiction, Crime Writing, and Caroline Clive’s Paul Ferroll: Adrienne E. Gavin -- 16. ‘[Your novel] quite gives me a pain in the stomach’: How Paternal Disapproval Ended Julia Wedgwood’s Promising Career as a Novelist: Sue Brown -- 17. Adam Bede and ‘the green trash of the railway stall’: George Eliot and the Lady Novelists of 1859: Gail Marshall. |
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British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2 : 1860s and 1870s / / edited by Adrienne E. Gavin, Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (307 pages) |
Disciplina |
823.809
809.41 |
Collana | British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern—19th century
Fiction British literature Nineteenth-Century Literature British and Irish Literature |
ISBN | 3-030-38528-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1.Introduction; Adrienne E. Gavin and Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton -- 2. A Decade of Experiment: George Eliot in the 1860s; Margaret Harris -- 3. ‘Duck him!’: Private Feelings, Public Interests, and Ellen Wood’s East Lynne; Tara MacDonald -- 4. [Tr]ains of Circumstantial Evidence: Railway ‘Monomania’ and Investigations of Gender in Lady Audley’s Secret; Andrew F. Humphries -- 5. ‘There is great need for forgiveness in this world': The Call for Reconciliation in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers and A Dark Night’s Work; Elizabeth Ludlow -- 6. ‘The plain duties which are set before me’: Charity, Agency, and Women’s Work in the 1860s; Kristine Moruzi -- 7.‘[S]mothered under rose-leaves’: Violent Sensation and the Location of the Feminine in Eliza Lynn Linton’s Sowing the Wind; Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton -- 8. ‘Fleshly Inclinations’: The Nature of Female Desire in Rhoda Broughton’s Early Fiction; Tamar Heller -- 9. Crumbs from the Table: Matilda Betham-Edwards’ Comic Writing in Punch; Clare Horrocks and Nickianne Moody -- 10. Transcending Prudence: Charlotte Riddell’s ‘City Women’; Silvana Colella -- 11. ‘[M]ute orations, mute rhapsodies, mute discussions’: Silence in George Eliot’s Last Decade; Fionnuala Dillane -- 12.‘His eyes commanded me to come to him’: Desire and Mesmerism in Rhoda Broughton’s ‘The Man with the Nose’; Melissa Purdue -- 13. ‘[E]mphatically un-literary and middle-classʼ: Undressing Middle-Class Anxieties in Ellen Wood’s Johnny Ludlow Stories; Alyson Hunt -- 14. ‘Sinecures which could be held by girls’: Margaret Oliphant and Women’s Labour; Danielle Charette -- 15. ‘More like a woman stuck into boy’s clothes’: Transcendent Femininity in Florence Marryat’s Her Father’s Name; Catherine Pope -- 16. ‘I am writing the life of a horse’: Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty in the 1870s; Adrienne E. Gavin -- 17. Forging a New Path: Fraud and White-Collar Crime in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s 1870s Fiction; Janine Hatter. . |
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British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 3 : 1880s And 1890s |
Autore | Gavin Adrienne E |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (328 pages) |
Altri autori (Persone) | de la L. OultonCarolyn W |
Collana | British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940 Series |
ISBN |
9783031572883
9783031572876 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Series Introduction -- Works Cited -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- Women's Writing of the 1880s -- Women's Writing of the 1890s -- Note -- References -- Part I Women's Writing of the 1880s -- 2 Edith Simcox on George Eliot: Transgendered Portraits in Episodes in the Lives of Men, Women, and Lovers -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 3 Domestic Metaphors and Scientific Illustration: Frances Power Cobbe and the Anti-Vivisection Movement in the 1880s -- Historical Background -- The Janus of Science -- Light in Dark Places -- Jack. A Mendicant -- Pompey's Peril -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- 4 'A Ghost Indeed': Spectralising the Female Householder in Margaret Oliphant's 1880s Fiction -- Debates about Married Women's Property in the 1880s -- The Ghost Story and Generational Ties Between Women -- The Female Householder and Exclusion in The Mystery of Mrs. Blencarrow -- Works Cited -- 5 Between the Aesthete and the Shopworker: Mind and Labour In Vernon Lee and Amy Levy -- Works Cited -- 6 Writing for the Masses: Ouida and Newspaper Syndication -- Works Cited -- 7 Adopting the Next Generation: Parenting in Women's Writing of the 1880s -- Family Business: Oliphant's Hester (1883) -- Ghostly Influence in Late Victorian Domestic Fiction: Yonge's Chantry House (1886) -- Influence and Inheritance in Craik's Adoption Novel King Arthur (1886). -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 8 'Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves': Anna Kingsford's Dreams and Dream-Stories (1888) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 9 'We are one': Fellowship Ideals and Social Transformation in Mona Caird's The Wing of Azrael -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part II Women's Writing of the 1890s -- 10 Notable or Invisible? Reassessing Women Writers of the 1890s -- Introduction -- The Late-Victorian Literary Marketplace.
John Strange Winter: A Thoroughly Domestic Woman? -- A Room of One's Own?: The Politics of Space -- The Rebel of the Family: Eliza Lynn Linton -- Florence Marryat: A Purveyor of Dangerously Inflammatory Fiction? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 11 Exploring Women's Possibilities at the Fin de Siècle: Sarah Grand's Quest for Women's Enlightenment -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 12 New Humour, New Dialogue: Ada Leverson's Contributions to Punch and The Yellow Book -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 13 George Paston's Fin-de-Siècle Feminism: Caught Between a Book and a Hard Place -- A Modern Amazon -- A Study in Prejudices -- The Career of Candida -- A Fair Deceiver -- A Writer of Books -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 14 'A good deal of risk … and a chance of danger': Detection, Adventure, and Violence in Beatrice Heron-Maxwell's The Adventures of a Lady Pearl-Broker -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 15 Woman Hate, Disgust, and National Happiness in the 1890s: Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan -- Phenomenally Popular Marie Corelli's Approach to Literary Emotions -- The Pursuit of Happiness -- Accounting for the Dissatisfaction of 1890s Society -- A Blueprint for the Successful Pursuit of Happiness? -- Woman Hate in Explorations of Happiness and Unhappiness -- Concluding Thoughts About Modernity, Happiness, and Woman Hate-Disgust -- Notes -- References -- 16 '[S]uch a nasty, sneering book': Class, Gender, and Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler's Concerning Isabel Carnaby -- Works Cited -- 17 Women's Quest for Independence in the 1890s: Mary Cholmondeley's Diana Tempest and Red Pottage -- Works Cited -- Index. |
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