The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing

ISBN-13: 9781107064843 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 298 str.

Linda Peterson

Opis

Innovative and comprehensive coverage of women writers' careers and literary achievements spanning many literary genres during the Victorian period.

Recenzje

'A valuable teaching tool and a relevant contribution to the study of gender and literary history. With its impressively wide range of examples of Victorian women writers and their works it reminds us of the immense work still to be done in order to gain a more complex understanding of nineteenth century literature and its institutions.' Nineteenth Century Gender Studies

Spis treści

Introduction: Victorian women writers and modern literary criticism Linda H. Peterson; Part I. Victorian Women Writers' Careers: 1. Making a debut Alexis Easley; 2. Becoming a professional writer Joanne Shattock; 3. Working with publishers Linda H. Peterson; 4. Assuming the role of editor Beth Palmer; 5. Achieving fame and canonicity Alison Chapman; Part II. Victorian Women Writers' Achievements: Genres and Modes: 6. Poetry Linda K. Hughes; 7. Silver-fork, industrial, and Gothic fiction Ella Dzelzainis; 8. The Realist novel Deirdre d'Albertis; 9. Sensation and New Woman fiction Lyn Pykett; 10. Drama and theater Katherine Newey; 11. Life writing Carol Hanberry Mackay; 12. Travel writing Tamara S. Wagner; 13. Colonial and imperial writing Mary Ellis Gibson and Jason R. Rudy; 14. History writing Deborah A. Logan; 15. Periodical writing Margaret Beetham; 16. Reviewing Joanne Wilkes; 17. Children's writing Claudia Nelson.