Womens Authorship And The Early Gothic

Author : Kathleen Hudson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786836106
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Authorship and the Early Gothic written by Kathleen Hudson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection examines Gothic works written by women authors in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with a specific focus on the novels and chapbooks produced by less widely commercially and critically popular writers. Bringing these authors to the forefront of contemporary critical examinations of the Gothic, chapters in this collection examine how these works impacted the development of 'women's writing' and Gothic writing during this time.0Offering readers an original look at the literary landscape of the period and the roles of the creative women who defined it, the collection argues that such works reflected a female-centred literary subculture defined by creative exchange and innovation, one that still shapes perceptions of the Gothic mode today. This collection, then, presents an alternative understanding of the legacy of women Gothic authors, anchoring this understanding in complex historical and social contexts and providing a new world of Gothic literature for readers to explore.

Author : Kathleen Hudson
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786836114
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Authorship and the Early Gothic written by Kathleen Hudson and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection examines Gothic works written by women authors in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with a specific focus on the novels and chapbooks produced by less widely commercially and critically popular writers. Bringing these authors to the forefront of contemporary critical examinations of the Gothic, chapters in this collection examine how these works impacted the development of ‘women’s writing’ and Gothic writing during this time. Offering readers an original look at the literary landscape of the period and the roles of the creative women who defined it, the collection argues that such works reflected a female-centred literary subculture defined by creative exchange and innovation, one that still shapes perceptions of the Gothic mode today. This collection, then, presents an alternative understanding of the legacy of women Gothic authors, anchoring this understanding in complex historical and social contexts and providing a new world of Gothic literature for readers to explore.

Author : Diane Long Hoeveler
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271040971
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gothic Feminism written by Diane Long Hoeveler and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As British women writers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries sought to define how they experienced their era's social and economic upheaval, they helped popularize a new style of bourgeois female sensibility. Building on her earlier work in Romantic Androgyny, Diane Long Hoeveler now examines the Gothic novels of Charlotte Smith, Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Charlotte Dacre Byrne, Mary Shelley, and the Bront&ës to show how these writers helped define femininity for women of the British middle class. Hoeveler argues that a female-created literary ideology, now known as &"victim feminism,&" arose as the Gothic novel helped create a new social role of professional victim for women adjusting to the new bourgeois order. These novels were thinly disguised efforts at propagandizing a new form of conduct for women, teaching that &"professional femininity&"&—a cultivated pose of wise passiveness and controlled emotions&—best prepared them for social survival. She examines how representations of both men and women in these novels moved from the purely psychosexual into social and political representations, and how these writers constructed a series of ideologies that would allow their female characters&—and readers&—fictitious mastery over an oppressive social and political system. Gothic Feminism takes a neo-feminist approach to these women's writings, treating them not as sacred texts but as thesis-driven works that attempted to instruct women in a series of strategic poses. It offers both a new understanding of the genre and a wholly new interpretation of feminism as a literary ideology.

Author : Avril Horner
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474409512
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and the Gothic written by Avril Horner and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-assessment of the Gothic in relation to the female, the 'feminine', feminism and post-feminismThis collection of newly commissioned essays brings together major scholars in the field of Gothic studies in order to re-think the topic of 'Women and the Gothic'. The 14 chapters in this volume engage with debates about 'Female Gothic' from the 1970s and '80s, through second wave feminism, theorisations of gender and a long interrogation of the 'women' category as well as with the problematics of post-feminism, now itself being interrogated by a younger generation of women. The contributors explore Gothic works from established classics to recent films and novels from feminist and post-feminist perspectives. The result is a lively book that combines rigorous close readings with elegant use of theory in order to question some ingrained assumptions about women, the Gothic and identity.Key FeaturesRevitalises the long-running debate about women, the Gothic and identityEngages with the political agendas of feminism and post-feminismPrioritises the concerns of woman as reader, author and criticOffers fresh readings of both classic and recent Gothic works

Author : Juliann E. Fleenor
Publisher : Eden Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Female Gothic written by Juliann E. Fleenor and published by Eden Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Wester
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137315288
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Gothic written by M. Wester and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new critique of contemporary African-American fiction explores its intersections with and critiques of the Gothic genre. Wester reveals the myriad ways writers manipulate the genre to critique the gothic's traditional racial ideologies and the mechanisms that were appropriated and re-articulated as a useful vehicle for the enunciation of the peculiar terrors and complexities of black existence in America. Re-reading major African American literary texts such as Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Of One Blood, Cane, Invisible Man, and Corregidora African American Gothic investigates texts from each major era in African American Culture to show how the gothic has consistently circulated throughout the African American literary canon.

Author : Melissa Edmundson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319769170
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930 written by Melissa Edmundson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores women writers’ involvement with the Gothic. The author sheds new light on women’s experience, a viewpoint that remains largely absent from male-authored Colonial Gothic works. The book investigates how women writers appropriated the Gothic genre—and its emphasis on fear, isolation, troubled identity, racial otherness, and sexual deviancy—in order to take these anxieties into the farthest realms of the British Empire. The chapters show how Gothic themes told from a woman’s perspective emerge in unique ways when set in the different colonial regions that comprise the scope of this book: Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, India, Australia, and New Zealand. Edmundson argues that women’s Colonial Gothic writing tends to be more critical of imperialism, and thereby more subversive, than that of their male counterparts. This book will be of interest to students and academics interested in women’s writing, the Gothic, and colonial studies.

Author : D. Wallace
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230245455
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Female Gothic written by D. Wallace and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor, motherhood and nationality - to open up new critical directions.

Author : Elizabeth Neiman
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786833689
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minervas Gothics written by Elizabeth Neiman and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1790 and 1820, William Lane’s Minerva Press published an unprecedented number of circulating-library novels by obscure female authors. Because these novels catered to the day’s fashion for sentimental themes and Gothic romance, they were and continue to be generally dismissed as ephemera. Recently, however, scholars interested in historicizing Romantic conceptions of genius and authorship have begun to write Minerva back into literary history. By making Minerva novels themselves the centre of the analysis, Minerva’s Gothics illustrates how Romantic ‘anxiety’ is better conceptualized as a mutual though not entirely equitable ‘exchange’, a dynamic interrelationship between Minerva novels and Romantic-era politics and poetics that started in 1780, when Lane began publishing novels with some regularity. Reading Minerva novels for their shared popular conventions demonstrates that circulating-library novelists collectively recirculate, engage and modify commonplaces about women’s nature, the social order and, most importantly, the very Romantic redefinitions of authorship and literature that render their novels not worth reading. By recognizing Minerva’s collaborative rather than merely derivative authorial model, a forgotten pathway is restored between first-generation Romantic reactions to popular print culture and Percy Shelley’s influential conceptualization of the poet in A Defence of Poetry.

Author : Susan J. Wolfson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521513413
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading John Keats written by Susan J. Wolfson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores John Keats's major works in the context of his reading and the world in which he shaped his career.