The feminine political novel in Victorian England

The feminine political novel in Victorian England / Barbara Leah Harman.

In this book, Barbara Leah Harman convincingly establishes a new category in Victorian fiction: the feminine political novel. By studying Victorian female protagonists who participate in the public universe conventionally occupied by men - the world of mills and city streets, of political activism a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harman, Barbara Leah
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1998.
Series:Victorian literature and culture series.
Subjects:
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Feminism and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > England > History > 19th century.
Political fiction, English > History and criticism.
Feminist fiction, English > History and criticism.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1837-1901.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: In promiscuous company
  • Public restraint and private spectacle in Shirley
  • Woman's work in North and south
  • Rectitude and larceny in Diana of the crossways
  • Crowds and marriage in In the year of jubilee
  • Renovating public space in The convert
  • Conclusion: The fate of public women.

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