Victorian Women's Fiction: Marriage, Freedom, and the Individual

ISBN-13: 9780415752305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014

Shirley Foster

Opis

Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have challenged contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women's fiction shows how 19th century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and alternative of single or professional life.

Spis treści

1. Introductory: Women and Marriage in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England  2. Dinah Mulock Craik: Ambivalent Romanticism  3. Charlotte Bronté: A Vision of Duality  4. Elizabeth Sewell: The Triumph of Singleness  5. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Wife’s View  6. George Eliot: Conservative Unorthodoxy

O autorze

Shirley Foster