Gender and Genre

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The Celebrated Hannah Cowley: Experiments in Dramatic Genre, 1776–1794

1st Edition

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

1st Edition

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

1st Edition

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'

1st Edition

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...