Literature and Society in Victorian Britain
Women's Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers
1st Edition
Edited
By Julie Melnyk
November 01, 2019
First published in 1998. This collection of original essays identifies and analyzes 19th-century women's theological thought in all its diversity, demonstrating the ways that women revised, subverted, or rejected elements of masculine theology in creating theologies of their own. While women's ...
Gender, Genre, and Victorian Historical Writing
1st Edition
By Rohan Amanda Maitzen
July 21, 2016
First published in 1999. and Middlemarch and of a range of nineteenth-century historical works, including works by and about women that are discussed extensively here for the first time. The blurring of boundaries between historical and fictional narratives, stimulated by the enormous success of...
Emigration and Empire: The Life of Maria S. Rye
1st Edition
By Marion Diamond
January 29, 2016
Maria S. Rye, a woman motivated by both feminist and philanthropic ideals, devoted her life to the migration of women and girls out of England. This biography gives an account of Rye's activities from her early engagement with liberal feminism through her association with the Langham Place group in...
The Maternal Voice in Victorian Fiction: Rewriting the Patriarchal Family
1st Edition
By Barbara Z. Thaden
August 01, 1997
This is the first full-length study to focus specifically on representations of motherhood in fiction by such Victorian writers as Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, Caroline Norton, and Ellen Price Wood. These authors presented an idealized view of motherhood as part of a campaign to gain ...