Author : Isobel Hurst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 10,31 MB
Release : 2006-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199283516
"In this study, Isobel Hurst brings together two lines of enquiry in recent criticism: the Romantic and Victorian reception of ancient Greece and Rome, and women as writers and readers in the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Nicola Diane Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 14,99 MB
Release : 1999-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521641020
This book was first published in 1999. 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.
Author : Linda H. Peterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107064848
Innovative and comprehensive coverage of women writers' careers and literary achievements spanning many literary genres during the Victorian period.
Author : Isobel Hurst
Publisher :
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 2006
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780191712715
This is an examination of the role of women writers in the Victorian reception of ancient Greece and Rome, showing that they had a greater imaginative engagement with classical literature than has previously been acknowledged.
Author : Harriet Devine Jump
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780312221980
This ground-breaking anthology brings together a wide selection of women's writings from the Victorian period (excluding fiction and drama), most of which cannot be easily found elsewhere. There are writings from more than 60 authors covering a broad range of public and private genres from the period including poetry, critical essays, biography, travel literature, political commentary, letters, diaries and journals, and care has been taken to balance extracts and complete texts.
Author : Michael Sims
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101486171
A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn't like to be told what to do. And, in crime fiction, such female detectives as Loveday Brooke, Dorcas Dene, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard are out there shadowing suspects, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses, and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder. In The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime, Michael Sims has brought together all of the era's great crime-fighting females- plus a few choice crooks, including Four Square Jane and the Sorceress of the Strand.
Author : Kay Boardman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2024-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 152618561X
Popular Victorian women writers considers a diverse group of women writers within the Victorian literary marketplace. It looks at authors such as Ellen Wood, Mary Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and Charlotte Yonge as well as less well-known writers including Jessie Fothergill and Eliza Meteyard. Each essay sets the individual author within her biographical and literary context and provides refreshing insights into their work. Together they bring the work of largely unknown authors and new perspectives on known authors to critical and public attention. Accessible and informative, the book is ideal for students of Victorian literature and culture as well as tutors and scholars of the period.
Author : Lesa Scholl
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 2022-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030783174
Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement.
Author : Mary Sebag-Montefiore
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0746311575
This study explores the lives and works of four major 19th century female children's writers, E. Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mrs Ewing and Mrs Molesworth who, in their fantasy and family tales, caused posterity to inherit a halcyon image of Victorian childhood.
Author : Angela Leighton
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 34,44 MB
Release : 1999-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780631176091
This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets. Among those discussed directly are: Elizabeth Barrett Browing, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Michael Field, Felicia Hemans, Adelaide Proctor, Christina Rossetti, and Rosamund Marriott Watson. Key topics dealt with include the nature of home,the market, the fallen woman and the moral law, the mother, and the muse. Critics represented are: Isobel Armstrong, Kathleen Blake, Susan Conley, Stevie Davies, Sandra M. Gilbert, Gill Gregory, Terrence Holt, Linda K. Hughes, Angela Leighton, Tricia Lootens, Jerome J. McGann, Dorothy Mermin, Margaret Reynolds, Dolores Rosenblum, Chris White, and Joyce Zonana.
