Gender, Genre, and Victorian Historical Writing

ISBN-13: 9780815328971 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 248 str.

Rohan Amanda Maitzen; Sally Mitchell

Opis

Combining literary history with cultural studies and feminist historiography, this text revises standard assumptions about Victorian ideas of history, finding an awareness of and experimentation with gender and genre that prefigure theoretical and scholarly concerns in contemporary women's history.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The Victorian Discourse of History; Chapter 2 ‘A Clique of Living Clios’; Chapter 3 Stitches in Time; Chapter 4 Gender and Historiography in Romola; Chapter 5 “‘Not At All Like Being A Queen’”?; Chapter 6 Mary and Elizabeth; Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHYIndex;

O autorze

Rohan Amanda Maitzen