Reviewing Sex: Gender and the Reception of Victorian Novels

ISBN-13: 9780333622179 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 164 str.

Nicola Diane Thompson; N. Thompson

Opis

This work examines the influence of Victorian definitions of gender on the cultural processes of reading and canon formation in 19th-century England. The analysis focuses on four canonical and popular novelists - Emily Bronte, Anthony Trollope, Charles Reade and Charlotte Yonge.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Reviewing and Writing: Sex and Gender - The 'Virile Creator' Versus the 'Twaddlers Tame and Soft': Charles Reade's It Is Never Too Late To Mend - The Unveiling of Ellis Bell: Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights -'Something Both More And Less than Manliness': Anthony Trollope's Reception - 'The Angel in the Circulating Library': Charlotte Yonge's The Heir of Redclyffe - Conclusion - Appendix: Victorian Periodicals: Reputation, Readership, and Circulation - Works Cited and Consulted - Index

O autorze

NICOLE DIANE THOMPSON