Victorian Women Writers And The Classics
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Author | : Isobel Hurst |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2006-09-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199283516 |
"In this study, Isobel Hurst brings together two lines of enquiry in recent criticism: the Romantic and Victorian reception of ancient Greece and Rome, and women as writers and readers in the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Nicola Diane Thompson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 1999-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521641020 |
This book was first published in 1999. This collection of essays by leading scholars from Britain, the USA and Canada opens up the limited landscape of Victorian novels by focusing attention on some of the women writers popular in their own time but forgotten or neglected by literary history. Spanning the entire Victorian period, this study investigates particularly the role and treatment of 'the woman question' in the second half of the century. There are discussions of marriage, matriarchy and divorce, satire, suffragette writing, writing for children, and links between literature and art. Moving from Margaret Oliphant and Charlotte Mary Yonge to Mary Ward, Marie Corelli, 'Ouida' and E. Nesbit, this book illuminates the complex cultural and literary roles, and the engaging contributions, of Victorian women writers.
Author | : Isobel Hurst |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : 9780191712715 |
This is an examination of the role of women writers in the Victorian reception of ancient Greece and Rome, showing that they had a greater imaginative engagement with classical literature than has previously been acknowledged.
Author | : Linda H. Peterson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2015-10-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107064848 |
Innovative and comprehensive coverage of women writers' careers and literary achievements spanning many literary genres during the Victorian period.
Author | : Harriet Devine Jump |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1999-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780312221980 |
This ground-breaking anthology brings together a wide selection of women's writings from the Victorian period (excluding fiction and drama), most of which cannot be easily found elsewhere. There are writings from more than 60 authors covering a broad range of public and private genres from the period including poetry, critical essays, biography, travel literature, political commentary, letters, diaries and journals, and care has been taken to balance extracts and complete texts.
Author | : Lesa Scholl |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 1753 |
Release | : 2022-12-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030783189 |
Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement.
Author | : Michael Sims |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2011-01-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101486171 |
A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn't like to be told what to do. And, in crime fiction, such female detectives as Loveday Brooke, Dorcas Dene, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard are out there shadowing suspects, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses, and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder. In The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime, Michael Sims has brought together all of the era's great crime-fighting females- plus a few choice crooks, including Four Square Jane and the Sorceress of the Strand.
Author | : Kay Boardman |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2024-07-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 152618561X |
Popular Victorian women writers considers a diverse group of women writers within the Victorian literary marketplace. It looks at authors such as Ellen Wood, Mary Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and Charlotte Yonge as well as less well-known writers including Jessie Fothergill and Eliza Meteyard. Each essay sets the individual author within her biographical and literary context and provides refreshing insights into their work. Together they bring the work of largely unknown authors and new perspectives on known authors to critical and public attention. Accessible and informative, the book is ideal for students of Victorian literature and culture as well as tutors and scholars of the period.
Author | : Mary Sebag-Montefiore |
Publisher | : Northcote House Pub Limited |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0746311575 |
This study explores the lives and works of four major 19th century female children's writers, E. Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mrs Ewing and Mrs Molesworth who, in their fantasy and family tales, caused posterity to inherit a halcyon image of Victorian childhood.
Author | : Kathleen Renk |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2020-07-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030482871 |
Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel: Erotic “Victorians” focuses on the work of British, Irish, and Commonwealth women writers such as A.S. Byatt, Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, Helen Humphreys, Margaret Atwood, and Ahdaf Soueif, among others, and their attempts to re-envision the erotic. Kathleen Renk argues that women writers of the neo-Victorian novel are far more philosophical in their approach to representing the erotic than male writers and draw more heavily on Victorian conventions that would proscribe the graphic depiction of sexual acts, thus leaving more to the reader’s imagination. This book addresses the following questions: Why are women writers drawn to the neo-Victorian genre and what does this reveal about the state of contemporary feminism? How do classical and contemporary forms of the erotic play into the ways in which women writers address the Victorian “woman question”? How exactly is the erotic used to underscore women’s creative potential?