Sex, Social Purity, and Sarah Grand: Selected letters

Sex, Social Purity, and Sarah Grand: Selected letters
Author: Sarah Grand
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 296
Release:
Genre: Feminism
ISBN: 9780415214124

Sarah Grand was one of the most prominent New Women of the 1890s and a notable social purity feminist and suffragist. This collection offers important insights into the full range of her journalistic output and lesser-known fictional writings. It also makes available biographical and autobiographical material, and previously unpublished manuscript sources. The first volume reproduces Grand's articles and the contemporary critical reception of her work. The letters in volume two, written mostly in the 1920s and 1930s, shed light on Grand's genesis as a writer and her interaction with 1890s artistic and feminist circles. The third and fourth volumes contain a selection of short stories from three collections published at and after the turn of the century. These comment on some of the explosive issues of that time: feminism, decadence, eugenics, class, race and war. They also reflect Grand's exploration of the interplay between gender and genre.

Women's University Narratives, 1890-1945, Part I Vol 1

Women's University Narratives, 1890-1945, Part I Vol 1
Author: Anna Bogen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040244580

From the late nineteenth century women began to enter British universities. Their numbers were small and their gains hard won and fiercely contested, yet they inspired a whole new genre of fiction. This collection of largely forgotten and rare texts forms a valuable primary resource for scholars of literature, social history and women’s education.

Walter Besant

Walter Besant
Author: Kevin A. Morrison
Publisher: Liverpool English Texts and St
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 178962035X

In the 1880s and 1890s, Walter Besant was one of Britain's most lionized living novelists. Today he is comparatively unknown. Bringing together literary critics and book historians, as well as social and cultural historians, this volume provides a major reassessment of Besant.

The Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s

The Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s
Author: Winnie Chan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2007-01-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135868581

This materialist study of the short story’s development in three diverse magazines reveals how, at the dawn of modernism, commercial pressures prompted modernist formal innovation in popular magazines, whilst anti-commercial opacity paradoxically formed the basis of an effective marketing strategy that appealed to elitism. Integrating methods of cultural studies with formal analyses, this study builds upon recent work challenging Andreas Huyssen’s provocative formation, the "great divide" of modernism.

Girlhood and the Politics of Place

Girlhood and the Politics of Place
Author: Claudia Mitchell
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857456474

Examining context-specific conditions in which girls live, learn, work, play, and organize deepens the understanding of place-making practices of girls and young women worldwide. Focusing on place across health, literary and historical studies, art history, communications, media studies, sociology, and education allows for investigations of how girlhood is positioned in relation to interdisciplinary and transnational research methodologies, media environments, geographic locations, history, and social spaces. This book offers a comprehensive reading on how girlhood scholars construct and deploy research frameworks that directly engage girls in the research process.