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

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

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 o...

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Main Author: Foster, Shirley
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Series:Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature ; v. 5
Subjects:
1800-1899
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.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist
LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors
LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference
English fiction
English fiction > Women authors
Liberty in literature
Marriage in literature
Psychological fiction, English
Social psychology in literature
Women and literature
Women in literature
Great Britain
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introductory : women and marriage in mid-nineteenth-century England
  • 2. Dinah Mulock Craik : ambivalent romanticism
  • 3. Charlotte Bronte? : a vision of duality
  • 4. Elizabeth Sewell : the triumph of singleness
  • 5. Elizabeth Gaskell : the wife's view
  • 6. George Eliot : conservative unorthodoxy.

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