Gender and Genre
Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand
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By Tamara S Wagner
October 14, 2024
Colonial domestic literature has been largely overlooked and is due for a reassessment. This essay collection explores attitudes to colonialism, imperialism and race, as well as important developments in girlhood and the concept of the New Woman....
Rose Macaulay, Gender, and Modernity
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By Kate Macdonald
December 12, 2019
This book is the first collection on the British author Rose Macaulay (1881-1958). The essays establish connections in her work between modernism and the middlebrow, show Macaulay’s attentiveness to reformulating contemporary depictions of gender in her fiction, and explore how her writing ...
The New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel
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By Tara MacDonald
December 12, 2019
By tracing the rise of the New Man alongside novelistic changes in the representations of marriage, MacDonald shows how this figure encouraged Victorian writers to reassess masculine behaviour and to re-imagine the marriage plot in light of wider social changes. She finds examples in novels by ...
Didactic Novels and British Women's Writing, 1790-1820
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By Hilary Havens
January 17, 2019
Tracing the rise of conduct literature and the didactic novel over the course of the eighteenth century, this book explores how British women used the didactic novel genre to engage in political debate during and immediately after the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Although didactic ...
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
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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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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....