Title Their fair share : women, power, and criticism in the Athenaeum, from Millicent Garett [sic] Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield, 1870-1920 / Marysa Demoor

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (176 pages) Series The Nineteenth Century Series Nineteenth Century Series Contents Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; The Nineteenth Century General Editors' Preface; List of Figures; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The Woman of Letters in Transition, 1870-1910; 3 The Athenaeum: A New Team, A New Policy; 4 Feminist Critics and the Athenaeum; 5 Reviewing Fiction; 6 Poets as Critics; 7 The Athenaeum: Gender, Criticism and the Anticipation of Modernism?; Selected Bibliography; Index Summary Their Fair Share identifies and contextualises many previously unknown critical writings by a selection of well-known turn-of-the-century women. It reveals the networks behind an influential journal like the Athenaeum and presents a more shaded assessment of its position in the field of cultural production, in the period 1870-1920. The Athenaeum (1828-1921) has often been presented as a monolithic institution offering its readers a fairly conservative, male oriented appreciation of a wide variety of contemporary publications. On the basis of archival and biographical material this book presents an entirely new analysis of the reviewing policy of this weekly from 1870, when it came into the hands of the politician Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, up to and including 1919-1920 when John Middleton Murry became its editor. Dilke, and his editor Norman MacColl, are here revealed to have been committed feminists who enlisted some of the most influential women of their time as critics for their journal. The book looks more specifically at the contributions by, a.o., Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Emilia Dilke, Jane Harrison and Augusta Webster Notes Print version of record SUBJECT Athenaeum (London, England : 1831) Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Women critics -- Great Britain LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Criticism English literature -- Theory, etc. Women and literature Women critics Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781315363400 1315363402

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