The History of British Women's Writing, 1830-1880
Volume Six
This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period immediately before and during the reign of Queen Victoria. It demonstrates how, between 1830 and 1880, the woman writer became an agent of cultural formation and contestation, appealing to and enabling the growth of female readership while issuing a challenge to the authority of male writers and critics. Of especial importance were changing definitions of marriage, family and nation, of class, and of morality as well as new conceptions of sexuality and gender, and of sympathy and sensatio…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-137-58465-6
- EAN: 9781137584656
- Produktnummer: 28868686
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'823 KB
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Lucy Hartley is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, USA. She is the author of two books, Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture (2001) and Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Art and the Politics of Public Life (2017), as well as numerous articles on the political and aesthetic dimensions of nineteenth-century British culture.
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