Gender and Genre
Dying to be English: Suicide Narratives and National Identity, 1721–1814
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By Kelly McGuire
March 03, 2016
This study examines the presentation of suicide within the genre of the eighteenth-century novel. Referencing several key writers of the period, McGuire demonstrates that their work inscribes a nationalist imperative to frame suicide as self-sacrifice....
Ann Yearsley and Hannah More, Patronage and Poetry: The Story of a Literary Relationship
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By Kerri Andrews
January 20, 2016
This study offers a timely and necessary reassessment of the careers of Ann Yearsley and Hannah More. Making use of newly-discovered letters and poems, Andrews provides a full analysis of the breakdown of the two writers’ affiliation and compares it to other labouring-class relationships based on ...
Art and Womanhood in Fin-de-Siecle Writing: The Fiction of Lucas Malet, 1880–1931
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By Catherine Delyfer
January 20, 2016
Lucas Malet is one of a number of forgotten female writers whose work bridges the gap between George Eliot and Virginia Woolf. Malet’s writing was intrinsically linked to her passion for art. This is the first book-length study of Malet’s novels....
Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country: A Reassessment
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Rattray
January 20, 2016
Bringing together leading Wharton scholars from Europe, and North America, this volume offers the first ever collection of essays on Edith Wharton's 1913 tour de force, The Custom of the Country....
Fictions of Dissent: Reclaiming Authority in Transatlantic Women's Writing of the Late Nineteenth Century
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By Sigrid Anderson Cordell
January 20, 2016
Fin-de-siècle fiction by British female aesthetes and American women regionalists stages moments of rebellion when female characters rise up and insist on the right to maintain control of their creations. Cordell asserts that these revolutionary acts constitute a transatlantic conversation about ...
Jane Austen's Civilized Women: Morality, Gender and the Civilizing Process
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By Enit Karafili Steiner
January 20, 2016
Jane Austen’s six complete novels and her juvenilia are examined in the context of civil society and gender. Steiner’s study uses a variety of contexts to appraise Austen’s work: Scottish Enlightenment theories of societal development, early-Romantic discourses on gender roles, modern sociological ...
Let the Flowers Go: A Life of Mary Cholmondeley
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By Carolyn W de la L Oulton
January 20, 2016
Giving a comprehensive critique of Cholmondeley's writings, Oulton analyzes the inspiration and influences behind some of her greatest work and provides an appealing biography on a writer whose work is of increasing interest to modern scholars....
Mary Cholmondeley Reconsidered
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Edited
By Carolyn W de la L Oulton, SueAnn Schatz
January 20, 2016
This book provides a necessary critical reappraisal of one of the most challenging and subversive of nineteenth-century women writers....
The Celebrated Hannah Cowley: Experiments in Dramatic Genre, 1776–1794
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By Angela Escott
January 20, 2016
Hannah Cowley (1743–1809) was a very successful dramatist, and something of an eighteenth-century celebrity. New critical interest in the drama of this period has meant a resurgence of interest in Cowley’s writing and in the performance of her plays. This is the first substantial monograph study to...
The Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889–1930
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By Sarah Parker
January 20, 2016
Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. This dynamic caused problems for late Victorian and twentieth-century women poets; how could the muse be reclaimed and moved on from the passive role of old? Parker looks at fin-de-siècle and modernist lyric ...
Victorian Settler Narratives: Emigrants, Cosmopolitans and Returnees in Nineteenth-Century Literature
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Edited
By Tamara S Wagner
January 20, 2016
This edited collection from a distinguished group of contributors explores a range of topics including literature as imperialist propaganda, the representation of the colonies in British literature, the emergence of literary culture in the colonies and the creation of new gender roles such as ‘girl...
Winifred Holtby's Social Vision: 'Members One of Another'
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By Lisa Regan
January 20, 2016
Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) is best-known today for her friendship with fellow feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain and for her last novel, South Riding. This is the first monograph to provide a literary criticism of Holtby’s social philosophy and presents in-depth readings of all her major works as...