Nora Gilbert (Associate Professor o Associate Professor of English

Gone Girls, 1684-1901

Flights of Feminist Resistance in the Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century British Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

Gone Girls, 1684-1901 examines how the persistent trope in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novels of female characters running away from home helped to shape both the novel form and modern feminism.

Produktdetails

• Approaches to the Novel
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 165mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780198876540
• ISBN-10: 0198876548
• Artikelnr.: 67864790

Autorenporträt

Nora Gilbert is an Associate Professor of English at the University of North Texas, where she jointly specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and twentieth-century American film. She is the author of Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Censorship, and the Benefits of Censorship (2013) and has published articles in such journals as PMLA, Film & History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Victorian Review, Eighteenth-Century Life, and JNT: The Journal of Narrative Theory. Since 2017, she has served as editor-in-chief of Studies in the Novel.

Inhaltsangabe

* Gone Girls will inspire some of its readers to bolt directly back to eighteenth - and nineteenth - century novels that
as the author eloquently puts it
"remind us of the radical
often underestimated potency of running to break free".