The 'Improper' Feminine - The Women's Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing (Paperback)

The women's sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s were two major examples of a perceived feminine invasion of fiction which caused a critical furore in their day. Both genres, with their shocking, `fast' heroines, fired the popular imagination by putting female sexuality on the literary agenda and undermining the `proper feminine' ideal to which nineteenth-century women and fictional heroines were supposed to aspire. By exploring in impressive depth and breadth the material and discursive conditions in which these novels were produced, The `Improper' Feminine draws attention to key gendered interrelationships within the literary and wider cultures of the mid-Victorian and fin-de-diecle periods.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2013
First published:	1992
Authors:	Lyn Pykett
Dimensions:	216 x 138mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-86206-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	0-415-86206-X
Barcode:	9780415862066

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