The Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850-1900 - Bilston, Sarah
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This book demonstrates that 'the awkward age' formed a fault-line in Victorian female experience, an unusual phase in which restlessness, self-interest, and rebellion were possible. Tracing evolving treatments of female adolescence though a host of long-forgotten women's fictions, the book reveals that representations of the girl in popular women's literature importantly anticipated depictions of the feminist in the fin de siècle New Woman writing; conservative portrayals of girls' hopes, dreams, and subsequent frustrations helped clear a literary and cultural space for the New Woman's…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
This book demonstrates that 'the awkward age' formed a fault-line in Victorian female experience, an unusual phase in which restlessness, self-interest, and rebellion were possible. Tracing evolving treatments of female adolescence though a host of long-forgotten women's fictions, the book reveals that representations of the girl in popular women's literature importantly anticipated depictions of the feminist in the fin de siècle New Woman writing; conservative
portrayals of girls' hopes, dreams, and subsequent frustrations helped clear a literary and cultural space for the New Woman's 'awakening' to disaffected consciousness. The book thus both historicises the evolution and mythic appeal of the female adolescent and works to receive suggestive exchanges
between apparently diverse female literary traditions.
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Autorenporträt
Sarah Bilston ist gebürtige Engländerin und hat in London und Oxford studiert. Zusammen mit ihrem amerikanischen Mann und ihren drei Kindern lebt sie mittlerweile in Connecticut, USA, und unterrichtet in Yale.
Rezensionen
The 'new' texts that Bilston has uncovered and her resistance to flattening the views of nineteenth-century women into one or two camps are especialy valuable. Lauren Tedesco, Nineteenth Century Studies