Pykett The 'Improper' Feminine

The Women's Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-1-134-94482-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

The women's sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s were two major examples of a perceived feminine invasion of fiction which caused a critical furore in their day.
Both genres, with their shocking, `fast' heroines, fired the popular imagination by putting female sexuality on the literary agenda and undermining the `proper feminine' ideal to which nineteenth-century women and fictional heroines were supposed to aspire.
By exploring in impressive depth and breadth the material and discursive conditions in which these novels were produced, The `Improper' Feminine draws attention to key gendered interrelationships within the literary and wider cultures of the mid-Victorian and fin-de-diècle periods.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pykett, Lyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introductory Note Part One: The `Improper Feminine' Part Two: The Sentimental and Sensational Sixties: The Limits of the Proper Feminine Part Three: Breaking Bounds: The Improper Feminine and the Fiction of the New Woman Conclusion: Reading Out Women's Writing Notes and References Index