New Woman Fiction

Author : Sally Ledger
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719040931
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Woman written by Sally Ledger and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By comparing fictional representations with "real" New Women in late-Victorian Britain, Sally Ledger makes a major contribution to an understanding of the "Woman Question" at the end of the century. Chapters on imperialism, socialism, sexual decadence, and metropolitan life situate the "revolting daughters" of the Victorian age in a broader cultural context than previous studies.

Author : A. Heilmann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230288359
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Woman Fiction written by A. Heilmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-08-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Woman was the symbol of the shifting categories of gender and sexuality and epitomised the spirit of the fin de siècle . This informative monograph offers an interdisciplinary approach to the growing field of New Woman studies by exploring the relationship between first-wave feminist literature, the nineteenth-century women's movement and female consumer culture. The book expertly places the debate about femininity, feminism and fiction in its cultural and socio-historical context, examining New Woman fiction as a genre whose emerging theoretical discourse prefigured concepts central to second-wave feminist theory.

Author : A. Richardson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349656038
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Woman in Fiction and Fact written by A. Richardson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural icon of the fin de siècle , the New Woman was not one figure, but several. In the guise of a bicycling, cigarette-smoking Amazon, the New Woman romped through the pages of Punch and popular fiction; as a neurasthenic victim of social oppression, she suffered in the pages of New Woman novels such as Sarah Grand's hugely successful The Heavenly Twins . The New Woman in Fiction and Fact marks a radically new departure in nineteenth-century scholarship to explore the polyvocal nature of the late Victorian debates around gender, motherhood, class, race and imperialism which converged in the name of the New Woman.

Author : Suzanne Ferriss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136092501
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chick Lit written by Suzanne Ferriss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling Bridget Jones's Diary that started the trend to the television sensation Sex and the Citythat captured it on screen, "chick lit" has become a major pop culture phenomenon. Banking on female audiences' identification with single, urban characters who struggle with the same life challenges, publishers have earned millions and even created separate imprints dedicated to the genre. Not surprisingly, some highbrow critics have dismissed chick lit as trashy fiction, but fans have argued that it is as empowering as it is entertaining. This is the first volume of its kind to examine the chick lit phenomenon from a variety of angles, accounting for both its popularity and the intense reactions-positive and negative-it has provoked. The contributors explore the characteristics that cause readers to attach the moniker "chick" to a particular book and what, if anything, distinguishes the category of chick lit from the works of Jane Austen on one end and Harlequin romance novels on the other. They critique the genre from a range of critical perspectives, considering its conflicted relationship with feminism and postfeminism, heterosexual romance, body image, and consumerism. The fourteen original essays gathered here also explore such trends and subgenres as "Sistah Lit," "Mommy Lit," and "Chick Lit Jr.," as well as regional variations. As the first book to consider the genre seriously, Chick Lit offers real insight into a new generation of women's fiction.

Author : Janet Beer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139828304
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin written by Janet Beer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although she enjoyed only modest success during her lifetime, Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature. Her seminal novel, The Awakening, published in 1899, explored new and startling territory, and stunned readers with its frank depiction of the limits of marriage and motherhood. Chopin's aesthetic tastes and cultural influences were drawn from both the European and American traditions, and her manipulation of her 'foreignness' contributed to the composition of a complex voice that was strikingly different to that of her contemporaries. The essays in this Companion treat a wide range of Chopin's stories and novels, drawing her relationship with other writers, genres and literary developments, and pay close attention to the transatlantic dimension of her work. The result is a collection that brings a fresh perspective to Chopin's writing, one that will appeal to researchers and students of American, nineteenth-century, and feminist literature.

Author : Jin Feng
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557533302
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction written by Jin Feng and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jin Feng proposes that representation of the "new woman" in Communist Chinese fiction of the earlier twentieth century was paradoxically one of the ways in which male writers of the era explored, negotiated, and laid claim to their own emerging identity as "modern" intellectuals.

Author : Carolyn Christensen Nelson
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Woman Reader written by Carolyn Christensen Nelson and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nina Baym
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woman's Fiction written by Nina Baym and published by Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book traces the birth, growth, and decline of a genre of popular fiction that dominated American literary taste for at least a generation - a genre created by women and directed at them"--Cover.

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Author : Lorna Sage
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349222259
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in the House of Fiction written by Lorna Sage and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1992-08-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel was once upon a time the genre women felt at home in. This wide- ranging and detailed study of contemporary novelists explores the forms of nostalgia (shared by many feminist critics) for a 'woman's novel'; and the subtle or savage strategies which have turned the house of fiction upside down. The result is a critique of the nature of narrative now; and a celebration of the energies that are undoing our definitions of women's work.