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Originally published in 1991, Reflecting on Miss Marple looks at
the incongruous combination of violence, murder and a sweet,
white-haired old lady, and examines why this makes such a potent
but unlikely formula. The book is an astute and engaging account
which reveals Miss Marple as a feminist heroine, triumphantly able
to exploit contemporary prejudices against unmarried women in order
to solve her case. The authors explore the inherent contradictions
of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novels, their social context, and
their place in detective fiction as a whole.
This interdisciplinary volume explores the fictional portrayal of
marriage by women novelists between 1800 and 1900. It investigates
the ways in which these novelists used the cultural form of the
novel to engage with and contribute to the wider debates of the
period around the fundamental cultural and social building block of
marriage. The collection provides an important contribution to the
emerging scholarly interest in nineteenth-century marriage, gender
studies, and domesticity, opening up new possibilities for
uncovering submerged, marginalized, and alternative stories in
Victorian literature. An initial chapter outlines the public
discourses around marriage in the nineteenth century, the legal
reforms that were achieved as a result of public pressure, and the
ways in which these laws and economic concerns impacted on the
marital relationship. It beds the collection down in current
critical thinking and draws on life writing, journalism, and
conduct books to widen our understanding of how women responded to
the ideological and cultural construct of marriage. Further
chapters examine a range of texts by lesser-known writers as well
as canonical authors structured around a timeline of the major
legal reforms that impacted on marriage. This structure provides a
clear framework for the collection, locating it firmly within
contemporary debate and foregrounding female voices. An afterword
reflects back on the topic of marriage in the nineteenth- century
and considers how the activism of the period influenced and shaped
reform post-1900. This volume will make an important contribution
to scholarship on Victorian Literature, Gender Studies, Cultural
Studies, and the Nineteenth Century.
Originally published in 1991, Reflecting on Miss Marple looks at
the incongruous combination of violence, murder and a sweet,
white-haired old lady, and examines why this makes such a potent
but unlikely formula. The book is an astute and engaging account
which reveals Miss Marple as a feminist heroine, triumphantly able
to exploit contemporary prejudices against unmarried women in order
to solve her case. The authors explore the inherent contradictions
of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novels, their social context, and
their place in detective fiction as a whole.
This interdisciplinary volume explores the fictional portrayal of
marriage by women novelists between 1800 and 1900. It investigates
the ways in which these novelists used the cultural form of the
novel to engage with and contribute to the wider debates of the
period around the fundamental cultural and social building block of
marriage. The collection provides an important contribution to the
emerging scholarly interest in nineteenth-century marriage, gender
studies, and domesticity, opening up new possibilities for
uncovering submerged, marginalized, and alternative stories in
Victorian literature. An initial chapter outlines the public
discourses around marriage in the nineteenth century, the legal
reforms that were achieved as a result of public pressure, and the
ways in which these laws and economic concerns impacted on the
marital relationship. It beds the collection down in current
critical thinking and draws on life writing, journalism, and
conduct books to widen our understanding of how women responded to
the ideological and cultural construct of marriage. Further
chapters examine a range of texts by lesser-known writers as well
as canonical authors structured around a timeline of the major
legal reforms that impacted on marriage. This structure provides a
clear framework for the collection, locating it firmly within
contemporary debate and foregrounding female voices. An afterword
reflects back on the topic of marriage in the nineteenth- century
and considers how the activism of the period influenced and shaped
reform post-1900. This volume will make an important contribution
to scholarship on Victorian Literature, Gender Studies, Cultural
Studies, and the Nineteenth Century.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
This is the most ambitious scholarly critical edition of Oliphant's
work ever undertaken. The sheer scale of her output has meant that
selection is essential, but the edition aims to convey the range
and variety of her work in both fiction and non-fictional genres.
It will bring together for the first time her critical writing and
other journalism for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the Spectator,
the St James's Gazette, as well as her articles in the Contemporary
Review, the Edinburgh, and Macmillan's Magazine. Much of her
fiction, including full length novels, short stories and novellas,
was first published in periodicals: in Blackwood's, the Cornhill,
Longman's Magazine, Macmillan's, and Good Words. Few of her
manuscripts survive, but substantive textual work remains to be
done on the editorial changes made between periodical serialization
and first appearance in volume form
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by
annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide
readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the
crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to
take her place as a major Victorian writer.
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In Memoriam (Hardcover)
Alfred Lord Tennyson; Edited by Susan Shatto, Marion Shaw
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When Sarah Burton returns to her hometown as headmistress she is
full of ambition, determined to create a great school and to
inspire her girls to take all they can from life. But in the
aftermath of the First World War, the country is in depression and
ideals are hard won. Lydia Holly, the scholarship girl from the
shacks, is the most brilliant student Sarah has ever taught, but
when her mother's health fails, her education must be sacrificed -
there is nobody else to care for the children. Robert Carne of
Maythorpe Hall stands for everything Sarah despises: his family has
farmed the South Riding for generations, their position
uncontested. Yet Sarah cannot help being drawn to this proud,
haunted - and almost ruined - man. South Riding is a rich,
panoramic novel, bringing vividly to life a rural community on the
brink of change.
This book is concerned with the fiction and drama of the period,
the poetry having been the subject of a separate book in the
Writers and their Work series. Chapter one provides an overview of
the women's movement between 1880-1919, and considers the diversity
of feminist and female identities and lifestyles. The second
chapter considers the representation of the woman artist in the
context of debates on literary value and its relationship to gender
and genre. Chapter three considers texts by a number of women
writers, including novels and short stories, with a focus on the
themes of motherhood, sexuality, eugenics, and imperialism. The
final chapter extends the fin de siecle period in order to look and
suffrage and other drama, with a focus on the leading woman
playwright of the Edwardian ere, Elizabeth Robbins. The dramatic
expression of themes addressed in the previous chapters is further
explored here, especially motherhood and the emergence of women
from sexual and domestic dependency.
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