CiNii Books - The "improper" feminine : the women's sensation novel and the new woman writing

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.

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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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