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Victorian Heroines - Representations of Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,665
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Victorian Heroines - Representations of Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art (Hardcover): Kimberley Reynolds,...

Victorian Heroines - Representations of Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art (Hardcover)

Kimberley Reynolds, Nicola Humble

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Kimberley Reynolds and Nicola Humble here provide a radical revision of Victorian constructions of femininity. Using a wide range of textual examples (including children's literature, sensations fiction, diaries, and autobiography) as well as visual illustrations, Victorian Heroines offers a new look at the representation of women and sexuality in nineteenth-century literature and painting.

Arguing against the conventional dyadic model that interprets Victorian fiction in terms of a rigid distinction between the good and bad, the sexual and asexual woman, the authors suggest a more complex paradigm, simultaneously concealing and revealing contradictory attitudes to Victorian womanhood.

The book explores the highly erotic fantasy elements frequently found in widely disseminated orthodox female images, and effectively demonstrates how both male and female writers used similar techniques to subvert this orthodoxy. Drawing on contemporary critical and cultural theories, "Victorian Heroines" is a lucid and accessible analysis of the depiction of women during this period, challenging the prevalent views of recent decades.

General

Imprint: Prentice Hall
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 1993
First published: November 1993
Authors: Kimberley Reynolds • Nicola Humble
Dimensions: 235 x 159 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-7361-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN: 0-8147-7361-3
Barcode: 9780814773611

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