Nicola Diane Thompson (ed.)

Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question

Herausgeber: Beer, Gillian; Thompson, Nicola D.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Women writers dominated the vast novel market in Victorian England, yet twentieth-century criticism has, until now, been chiefly concerned with a small number of canonical novelists. This collection of essays by leading scholars from Britain, the USA and Canada opens up the limited landscape of Victorian novels by focusing attention on some of the women writers popular in their own time but forgotten or neglected by literary history. Spanning the entire Victorian period, this study investigates particularly the role and treatment of 'the woman question' in the second half of the century. There are discussions of marriage, matriarchy and divorce, satire, suffragette writing, writing for children, and links between literature and art. Moving from Margaret Oliphant and Charlotte Mary Yonge to Mary Ward, Marie Corelli, 'Ouida' and E. Nesbit, this book illuminates the complex cultural and literary roles, and the engaging contributions, of Victorian women writers.

Table of contents:
1. Responding to the woman question: re-reading non-canonical Victorian women novelists Nicola Diane Thompson; 2. Marriage and the anti-feminist woman novelist Valerie Sanders; 3. Breaking apart: the early Victorian divorce novel Anne Humpherys; 4. Phantasies of matriarchy in Victorian children's literature by non-canonical woman writers Alison Chapman; 5. Gendered observations: Harriet Martineau and the woman question Alexis Easley; 6. Maximising Oliphant: begging the question and the politics of satire Monica F. Cohen; 7. 'Ploughing in all directions': literary women of the 1850s and Charlotte Mary Yonge's Dynevor Terrace June Sturrock; 8. Portraits of the artist as a young woman: representations of the female artist in the women's writing of the 1890s Lyn Pykett; 9. Lady in green with novel: the economics of painting in women's writing Dennis Denisoff; 10. Ouida and the other new woman Pamela K. Gilbert; 11. Organizing women: new woman writers, new woman readers, and suffrage feminism Ann Ardis; 12. Shot out of the canon: Mary Ward and the claims of conflicting feminism Beth Sutton-Ramspeck; 13. Brave girls and strategic displacements: E. Nesbit and the woman question Amelia A. Rutledge; 14. 'An 'old-fashioned' young woman': Marie Corelli and the new woman Annette R. Federico.

This collection of essays focuses attention on Victorian women writers popular in their own time but forgotten or neglected since, from Margaret Oliphant and Mary Ward to E. Nesbit. The book illuminates the complex cultural and literary roles, and the engaging contributions, of women writers in the nineteenth century.

Discusses the work of a wide range of women writers popular in Victorian England but neglected or forgotten since.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9780521641029
• ISBN-10: 0521641020
• Artikelnr.: 21296163

Inhaltsangabe

1. Responding to the woman question: re-reading non-canonical Victorian
women novelists Nicola Diane Thompson; 2. Marriage and the anti-feminist
woman novelist Valerie Sanders; 3. Breaking apart: the early Victorian
divorce novel Anne Humpherys; 4. Phantasies of matriarchy in Victorian
children's literature by non-canonical woman writers Alison Chapman; 5.
Gendered observations: Harriet Martineau and the woman question Alexis
Easley; 6. Maximising Oliphant: begging the question and the politics of
satire Monica F. Cohen; 7. 'Ploughing in all directions': literary women of
the 1850s and Charlotte Mary Yonge's Dynevor Terrace June Sturrock; 8.
Portraits of the artist as a young woman: representations of the female
artist in the women's writing of the 1890s Lyn Pykett; 9. Lady in green
with novel: the economics of painting in women's writing Dennis Denisoff;
10. Ouida and the other new woman Pamela K. Gilbert; 11. Organizing women:
new woman writers, new woman readers, and suffrage feminism Ann Ardis; 12.
Shot out of the canon: Mary Ward and the claims of conflicting feminism
Beth Sutton-Ramspeck; 13. Brave girls and strategic displacements: E.
Nesbit and the woman question Amelia A. Rutledge; 14. 'An 'old-fashioned'
young woman': Marie Corelli and the new woman Annette R. Federico.