Author: WomanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The woman with the yellow hair, and other modern mysteries
Author: WomanRepresentations of Hair in Victorian Literature and Culture
Author: Galia OfekPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351904183
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Galia Ofek's wide-ranging study elucidates the historical, artistic, literary, and theoretical meanings of the Victorians' preoccupation with hair. Victorian writers and artists, Ofek argues, had a well-developed awareness of fetishism as an overinvestment of value in a specific body part and were fully cognizant of hair's symbolic resonance and its value as an object of commerce. In particular, they were increasingly alert to the symbolic significance of hairstyling. Among the writers and artists Ofek considers are Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant, Charles Darwin, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Eliza Lynn Linton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Herbert Spencer, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and Aubrey Beardsley. By examining fiction, poetry, anthropological and scientific works, newspaper reviews and advertisements, correspondence, jewellery, paintings, and cartoons, Ofek shows how changing patterns of power relations between women and patriarchy are rendered anew when viewed through the lens of Victorian hair codes and imagery during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Victorian Sensations
Author: Kimberly HarrisonPublisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814210317
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
"Wildly popular with Victorian readers, sensation fiction was condemned by most critics for scandalous content and formal features that deviated from respectable Victorian realism. Victorian Sensations is the first collection to examine sensation fiction as a whole, showing it to push genre boundaries and resist easy classification. Comprehensive in scope, this collection includes twenty original essays employing various critical approaches to cover a range of topics that will interest many readers." "Essays are organized thematically into three sections: issues of genre; sensational representations of gender and sexuality; and the texts' complex readings of diverse social and cultural phenomena such as class, race, and empire. The introduction reviews the critical reception of sensation fiction to situate these new essays within a larger scholarly context."--BOOK JACKET.
Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction
Author: L. SussexPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230289401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This book is a study of the 'mothers' of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, but they had formidable women rivals, whose work has been until recently largely forgotten. The purpose of this book is to 'cherchez les femmes', in a project of rediscovery.
Women Writing Crime Fiction, 1860-1880
Author: Kate WatsonPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786491175
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Arthur Conan Doyle has long been considered the greatest writer of crime fiction, and the gender bias of the genre has foregrounded William Godwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Emile Gaboriau and Fergus Hume. But earlier and significant contributions were being made by women in Britain, the United States and Australia between 1860 and 1880, a period that was central to the development of the genre. This work focuses on women writers of this genre and these years, including Catherine Crowe, Caroline Clive, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs. Henry (Ellen) Wood, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Louisa May Alcott, Metta Victoria Fuller Victor, Anna Katharine Green, Celeste de Chabrillan, "Oline Keese" (Caroline Woolmer Leakey), Eliza Winstanley, Ellen Davitt, and Mary Helena Fortune--innovators who set a high standard for women writers to follow.
S-Zypaeus. 1878
Author: Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jurisprudence
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Saunders, Otley & Co.'s Literary Budget for England, India, China, Australia and the Colonies
Author: Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: Spurs and skirts
Author: Allet (pseud.)Calabria and the Liparian Islands in the Year 1860
Author: Elpis MelenaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calabria (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description