Title The new nineteenth century : feminist readings of underread Victorian fiction / edited by Barbara Leah Harman, and Susan Meyer

Published New York : Garland Pub., 1996

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvii, 286 pages) Series Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1700. Wellesley studies in critical theory, literary history, and culture ; v. 10 Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1700. Garland reference library of the humanities. Wellesley studies in critical theory, literary history, and culture ; v. 10. Contents Forward : the underread / John Sutherland -- Words on "great vulgar sheets" : writing and social resistance in Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey (1847) / Susan Meyer -- At home upon a stage : domesticity and genius in Geraldine Jewsbury's The half sisters (1848) / Judith Rosen -- Rewriting the male plot in Wilkie Collin's No name (1862) : Captain Wragge orders an omelette and Mrs. Wragge goes into custody / Deirdre David -- Silent woman, speaking fiction : Charles Reade's Griffith Gaunt (1866) at the adultery trial of Henry Ward Beecher / Laura Hanft Korobkin -- Mrs. Oliphant, Miss Majoribanks (1866), and the victorian canon / Joseph H. O'Mealy -- The vampire in the house : hysteria, female sexuality, and female knowledge in Le Fanu's "Carmilla" (1872) / Tamar Heller -- Solicitors soliciting : the dangerous circulations of professionalism in Dracula (1897) / Jasmine Yong Hall -- Eliza Lynn Linton : The rebel of the family (1880) and other novels / Nancy Fix Anderson -- Problems of a "democratic text" : Walter Besant's impossible story in All sorts and conditions of men (1882) / Wim Neetens -- Naturalism in George Moore's A mummer's wife (1885) / Judith Mitchell -- Joy behind the screen : the problem of "presentability" in George Gissing's The Nether World (1889) / Barbara Leah Harman -- Curious dualities : The heavenly twins (1893) and Sarah Grand's belated modernist aesthetics / John Kucich -- Mapping the "Terra incognita" of woman : George Egerton's Keynotes (1893) and new woman fiction / Kate McCullough -- "Transition time" : the political romances of Mrs. Humphry Ward's Marcella (1894) and Sir George Tressady (1896) / Judith Wilt -- Mobilizing chivalry : rape in Flora Anne Steel's On the face of the waters (1896) and other British novels about the Indian uprising of 1857 / Nancy L. Paxton Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Feminist fiction, English -- History and criticism Sex role in literature. Canon (Literature) LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Canon (Literature) English fiction Feminism and literature Feminist fiction, English Literature and society Sex role in literature Women and literature Frauenroman Aufsatzsammlung Frauenliteratur Romans. Engels. Vrouwen. Roman anglais -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique. Féminisme et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle. Femmes et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle. Canons littéraires. Geschichte 1800-1900. Great Britain Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Harman, Barbara Leah Meyer, Susan ISBN 9781136512452 1136512454

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