Liggins Odd women?

Spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s–1930s
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1165-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

This genealogy of the odd woman compares representations of spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women’s fiction and auto/biography from the 1850s to the 1930s

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liggins, Emma

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Female redundancy, widowhood and the mid-Victorian heroine
2. Bachelor girls, mistresses and the New Woman heroine
3. Spinster heroines, aunts and widowed mothers, 1910–39
4. The misfit lesbian heroine of interwar fiction
5. Professional spinsters, older women and widowed heroines in the 1930s
Conclusion
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Liggins Emma:
Emma Liggins is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan UniversityEmma Liggins is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University