The Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850-1900: Girls and the Transition to Womanhood

ISBN-13: 9780199272617 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 272 str.

Sarah Bilston

Opis

Tracing evolving treatments of female adolescence through a host of long-forgotten women's fictions, the book reveals that representations of the girl in popular women's literature importantly anticipated depictions of the feminist in the fin de siecle New Woman writing; conservative portrayals of girls' hopes, dreams, and subsequent frustrations helped clear a literary and cultural space for the New Woman's "awakening" to disaffected consciousness.
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Recenzje

The 'new' texts that Bilston has uncovered and her resistance to flattening the views of nineteenth-century women into one or two camps are especialy valuable. Lauren Tedesco, Nineteenth Century Studies

O autorze

Sarah Bilston ist gebürtige Engländerin und hat in London und Oxford studiert. Zusammen mit ihrem amerikanischen Mann und ihren drei Kindern lebt sie mittlerweile in Connecticut, USA, und unterrichtet in Yale.