Margaret Harkness (eBook, ePUB)

Writing social engagement 1880-1921
Redaktion: Janssen, Flore; Robertson, Lisa C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Margaret Harkness is the first book to bring together research on the life and work of a writer, activist and traveller at the forefront of literary innovation and social change at the turn of the twentieth century. Its multidisciplinary approach combines recently uncovered biographical information with rich contextual information to illuminate the extensive career of a writer committed to exposing the exploitation of individuals and the plight of marginalised communities worldwide. The critical essays range from new considerations of Harkness's well-known novels to examinations of lesser-known periodical fiction and journalism, her relationship with contemporaries such as Olive Schreiner and W. T. Stead, and her life and work abroad in Australia and India. The book gives substance to women's social engagement and political involvement in a period prior to their formal enfranchisement and enriches understanding of the complex and dynamic world of the long nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zando
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526123527
• Artikelnr.: 56521226

Autorenporträt

Flore Janssen is a PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London Lisa C. Robertson is a Post-Doctoral Associate at the University of Warwick

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology of Margaret Harkness's life Margaret Harkness's connections
Selected works by Margaret Harkness Note on texts cited Introduction:
Rethinking Margaret Harkness's Significance in Political and Literary
History Lisa C. Robertson and Flore Janssen Part I: Harkness's Life and
Work 1. A Law unto Herself: the Solitary Odyssey of M. E. Harkness Terry
Elkiss 2. Absent Character: from Margaret Harkness to John Law Tabitha
Sparks Part II: In Harkness's London 3. Walking Harkness's London Nadia
Valman 4. 'The Problem of Leisure/What to do for Pleasure': Women and
Leisure Time in A City Girl (1887) and In Darkest London (1891) Eliza
Cubitt 5. The Vicissitudes of Victory: Margaret Harkness, George Eastmont,
Wanderer (1905), and the 1889 Dockworkers' Strike David Glover Part III:
Harkness and Genre: Rethinking Slum Fiction 6. Soundscapes of the City in
Margaret Harkness, A City Girl (1887), Henry James, The Princess
Casamassima (1885-86), and Katharine Buildings, Whitechapel Ruth Livesey 7.
Margaret Harkness, Novelist: Social Semantics and Experiments in Fiction
Lynne Hapgood 8. 'Connie': Melodrama and Tory-Socialism Deborah Mutch Part
IV: Personal Influences: Harkness and her Contemporaries 9. Socialism,
Suffering, and Religious Mystery: Margaret Harkness and Olive Schreiner
Angharad Eyre 10. Margaret Harkness, W. T. Stead, and the Transatlantic
Social Gospel Network Helena Goodwyn Part V: After London: Harkness's Life
and Work in the Twentieth Century 11. Through the Mill: Margaret Harkness
on Conjectural History and Utilitarian Philosophy Lisa C. Robertson 12.
Lasting Ties: Margaret Harkness, the Salvation Army, and A Curate's Promise
(1921) Flore Janssen Index