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Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Pen and Pencil
Author: The Life of Mrs. Norton
Author: Jane Gray PerkinsPublisher:
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Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Dickens and the Rise of Divorce
Author: Kelly HagerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317151178
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Questioning a literary history that, since Ian Watt's Rise of the Novel, has privileged the courtship plot, Kelly Hager proposes an equally powerful but overlooked narrative focusing on the failed marriage. Hager maps the legal history of marriage and divorce, providing crucial background as she reveals the prevalence of the failed-marriage plot in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novels. Dickens's novels emerge as representative case studies in their preoccupations with the disintegration of marriage, the far-reaching and disastrous effects of the doctrine of coverture, and the comic, spectacular, and monstrous possibilities afforded by the failed-marriage plot. Setting his narratives alongside the writings of liberal reformers like John Stuart Mill and the seemingly conservative agendas of Caroline Norton, Eliza Lynn Linton, and Sarah Stickney Ellis, Hager also offers a more contextualized account of the competing strands of the Woman Question. In the course of her revisionist readings of Dickens's novels, Hager uncovers a Dickens who is neither the conservative agent of the patriarchy nor a novelistic Jeremy Bentham, and reveals that tipping the marriage plot on its head forces us to adjust our understanding of the complexities of Victorian proto-feminism.
Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1867
Author: M. O'CinneidePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230583326
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Aristocratic women flourished in the Victorian literary world, their combination of class privilege and gendered exclusion generating distinctively socialized modes of participation in cultural and political activity. Their writing offers an important trope through which to consider the nature of political, private and public spheres.
Victorian Social Activists' Novels
Author: Oliver LoveseyPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040156045
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1429
Book Description
The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy. Their works employ a broad variety of genres from the novel of manners, sensation, education and vocation, to allegory, romance and lesbian fiction.
Left to Themselves
Author: Harriet Maria Gordon SmythiesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 304
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The Southern Quarterly Review
Author: Daniel Kimball WhitakerPublisher:
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Next door
Author: Katherine ThomsonThe Selected Letters of Caroline Norton
Author: Ross NelsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000731987
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
This is the second volume of a three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton, covering the period January 1838-November 1857. The collection also includes an introduction and five commentaries by the editor, contextualising and embedding Caroline’s literary and political achievements within the narrative of her letters.
Women Writers
Author: Catherine Jane HamiltonPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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