Women's Emancipation Writing at the Fin de Siecle

ISBN-13: 9780367664343 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 230 str.

Elena V. Shabliy; Dmitry Kurochkin; O'Donnell Karen

Opis

Many novelists in various national literatures touched upon the theme of an emancipated woman in the long nineteenth century and at the fin de siècle. This volume analyzes women’s voices from different parts of the world—Turkey, England, the U.S., Italy, Russia, Spain, and others.

Spis treści

Introduction

The New, but New with G*d

Elena V. Shabliy

Chapter 1

Women’s Labor Activism in the Progressive Era and Marie Van Vorst’s Amanda of the Mill as a Social Propaganda Tool

Emine Gecgil

Chapter 2

"I have been wronged, and I long to right myself at once": Revenge, Deceit and Female Power in Louisa May Alcott’s Sensational Short Fiction

Evangelia Kindinger

Chapter 3

Who’s Afraid of Women Photographers? Redefining Gender, Gaze, and Photography in Amy Levy’s The Romance of a Shop

Mavis Chia-Chieh Tseng

Chapter 4

Rediscovering London in Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern Woman

Sun Jai Kim

Chapter 5

The First "New Woman" in Modern Hebrew Literature: Finalia Adelberg in Love of The Righteous, or, The Persecuted Families by Sarah Feiga Meinkin

Michal Fram Cohen

Chapter 6

Gendering the Empire: The Discourse on the New Woman and Emergence of Ottoman Feminism, 1860-1918

Burcin Cakir

Chapter 7

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda: A Feminist Life and its Discourse

Laureano Corces

　

Chapter 8

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Two Fin de Siècle Women Writers

Afrin Zeenat

Chapter 9

Women’s Roles in Mass Literacy, Production, and Sensation in George Gissing’s New Grub Street

Robin M. Mako Citarella

Conclusion

O autorze

Elena V. Shabliy is a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and a　Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University.

Dmitry Kurochkin is a Research Associate at Harvard University.

Karen O’Donnell is the CODEC Research Fellow at Durham University.