The "improper" feminine : the women's sensation novel and the new woman writing
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The "improper" feminine : the women's sensation novel and the new woman writing
Routledge, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-224) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The 'Improper' Feminine
- Chapter 1 Gender and writing, writing and gender
- Chapter 2 The subject of Woman
- Chapter 3 The subject of Woman and the subject of women's fiction
- Chapter 4 Fiction and the feminine: a gendered critical discourse
- Chapter 5 Fiction, the feminine and the sensation novel
- Chapter 6 Representation and the feminine: engendering fiction in the 1890s
- Part 2 The Sentimental and Sensational Sixties: The Limits of the Proper Feminine
- Chapter 7 Historicising genre (1): the cultural moment of the woman's sensation novel
- Chapter 8 Surveillance and control: women, the family and the law
- Chapter 9 Spectating the Social Evil: fallen and other women
- Chapter 10 Reviewing the subject of women: the sensation novel and the 'Girl of the Period'
- Chapter 11 Historicising genre (2): sensation fiction, women's genres and popular narrative forms
- Chapter 12 Mary Elizabeth Braddon: the secret histories of women
- Chapter 13 Ellen Wood: secret skeletons in the family, and the spectacle of women's suffering
- Part 3 Breaking the Bounds
- Chapter 14 The New Woman
- Chapter 15 The New Woman writing and some marriage questions
- Chapter 16 Writing difference differently
- Chapter 17 Feeling, motherhood and True Womanhood
- Chapter 18 Woman's 'affectability' and the literature of hysteria
- Chapter 19 Writing women: writing woman
- Chapter 20 New Woman: new writing
- Chapter 21 Conclusion: reading out women's writing
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