Author: Ann Heilmann
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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The beginnings of the modern idea of feminism are usually traced to the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792. Since then, women's emancipation has been a constantly debated and topical subject. This series entitled Victorian and Edwardian Anti-Feminism will present the other side of the debate - anti-feminism - more or less obviously through novels and other writings of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Anti-Feminism in the Victorian Novel is a collection of five rare novels depicting various aspects of the anti-feminist ideology that was making a strong stand against the increasingly widespread movement towards feminism and suffrage in late 19th-century Britain. the debate. The concept of women and the family is represented by Eliza Lynn Linton's The Rebel of the Family (1880); women and politics by Walter Besant's The Revolt of Man (1890); women in medicine by Arabella Kenealy's Dr Janet of Harley Street (1893); women in art by C.E. Raimond Elizabeth Robins], George Mandeville's Husband (1894); and women and sex by Grant Allen, The Type-Writer Girl (1897). The set should be of interest to scholars of women's studies and 19th-century history.
Author: Kevin A. Morrison
Publisher:
ISBN: 178962035X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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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.
Author: Valerie Sanders
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Focuses on the work of four Victorian anti-feminist women writers-- Eliza Linton, Charlotte Yonge, Mrs. H. Ward, and Margaret Oliphant-- and asks why, despite their own liberated lifestyles, they publicly opposed the advancement of women. Surveys women's anti- feminist attitudes after Mary Wollstonecraft's death, as well as selections from the novelists' best known works and journalism, examining their construction of gender ideals, criticism of the church, and their antagonism to literary predecessors such as Jane Austin and George Eliot. The author stresses their inconsistencies, and suggests that their novels reveal a strong attraction to the world of work. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Walter Besant
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752398728
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Reproduction of the original: The Revolt of Man by Walter Besant
Author: Jennifer Hedgecock
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1604975180
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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"examines the changing social and economic status of women from the 1860s through the 1880s, and rejects the stereotypical mid-Victorian femme fatale portrayed by conservative ideologues critiquing popular fiction by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Honore de Balzac, and William Makepeace Thackeray. In these book reviews, the female protagonist is simply minimized to a dangerous woman. Refuting this one-dimensional characterization, this book argues that the femme fatale comes to represent the real-life struggles of the middle-class Victorian woman who overcomes major adversities such as poverty, abusive husbands, abandonment, single parenthood, limited job opportunities, the criminal underworld, and Victorian society's harsh invective against her." --publisher description.
Author: David Robert Ewbank
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Author: Barbara Leah Harman
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813917726
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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In this book, Barbara Leah Harman convincingly establishes a new category in Victorian fiction: the feminine political novel. By studying Victorian female protagonists who participate in the public universe conventionally occupied by men - the world of mills and city streets, of political activism and labor strikes, of public speaking and parliamentary debates - she is able to reassess the public realm as the site of noble and meaningful action for women in Victorian England. Harman examines at length Bronte's Shirley, Gaskell's North and South, Meredith's Diana of the Crossways, Gissing's In the Year of Jubilee, and Elizabeth Robins's The Convert, reading these novels in relation to each other and to developments in the emerging British women's movement. She argues that these texts constitute a countertradition in Victorian fiction: neither domestic fiction nor fiction about the public "fallen" woman, these novels reveal how nineteenth-century English writers began to think about female transgression into the political sphere and about the intriguing meanings of women's public appearances.
Author: Anne DeWitt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107036178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
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Anne DeWitt examines how Victorian novelists challenged the claims of men of science to align scientific practice with moral excellence.
Author: Francis O'Gorman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470779853
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.
Author: Stanley Coben
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195045932
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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The 1920s in America was a decade of rebellion, reform, and reaction as traditional Victorian values came under attack from all sides. Black leaders like W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, feminists like Alice Paul, politicians like Robert La Follette, and social scientists like Franz Boas and Margaret Mead all assaulted fundamental inequalities inherited from the nineteenth century. A host of scientific breakthroughs eroded the foundations of the older world view, and cultural innovations like jazz challenged the nineteenth-century morality of most middle class Americans and also provoked spirited defenses of tradition by extremists like the Ku Klux Klan. In this wide-ranging and vividly written book, Stanley Coben introduces a new hypothesis about the reasons for the tumultuous cultural changes during the 1920s. He begins with the Victorian concept of "character," the word which assured Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that men were men, women were wives and mothers, and homes were sanctuaries. (Harriet Beecher Stowe and her sister Catherine wrote that "She who is the mother and housekeeper in a large family is the sovereign of an empire.") Coben doesn't spare us the seamy underside of the Victorian ideal either, such as the racism revealed by the Oxford professor who declared to an approving American audience in 1882 that "the best remedy for whatever is amiss in America would be if every Irishman should kill a negro and be hanged for it." Nor does he hesitate to describe the failures of those who rebelled against tradition, like the early supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment, or the farmer-labor-progressive presidential coalition of 1924. Rebellion Against Victorianism is particularly enlightening on cultural matters, showing how artforms of the '20s--like jazz or the novels of Ernest Hemingway and Sinclair Lewis--were part of the rebellion. The book includes a fascinating chapter-length discussion of the Ku Klux Klan which reveals that the Klan in the 1920s was in no way a Southern, fringe group--in fact, the K.K.K. had more members in Connecticut than in Mississippi. The Klan's defense of Victorian "character" spoke to millions of Americans who found themselves shaken up by the cultural revolution going on around them. In illuminating the events and personalities of this water-shed decade, Coben draws with equal confidence from the realms of culture and politics, science and society. His book brings an alternative perspective to the impetus for change in American life, demonstrating that many of the contradictions which inspired the rebellion against Victorianism still exist today. The results are sometimes startling, but always intriguing.
