The new woman in fiction and in fact : fin-de-siècle feminisms

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The new woman in fiction and in fact : fin-de-siècle feminisms

edited by Angelique Richardson and Chris Willis ; foreword by Lyn Pykett

Palgrave, 2002

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Originally published: 2001

Includes bibliographical references and index

Published in association with the Institute for English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

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Description

A cultural icon of the fin de siecle , the New Woman was not one figure, but several. In the guise of a bicycling, cigarette-smoking Amazon, the New Woman romped through the pages of Punch and popular fiction; as a neurasthenic victim of social oppression, she suffered in the pages of New Woman novels such as Sarah Grand's hugely successful The Heavenly Twins . The New Woman in Fiction and Fact marks a radically new departure in nineteenth-century scholarship to explore the polyvocal nature of the late Victorian debates around gender, motherhood, class, race and imperialism which converged in the name of the New Woman.

Table of Contents

  • Foreword
  • L.Pykett List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: A.Richardson & C.Willis 'Nothing but Foolscap and Ink', Inventing the New Woman
  • T.Schaffer Bicycles and Blue Stockings: Packaging the New Woman for Mass Consumption
  • C.Willis Horses, Bikes and Automobiles: New Women on the Move
  • S.Wintle Ibsen, the New Woman and the Actress
  • S.Ledger 'He-notes': Reconstructing Masculinity
  • G.Cunningham New Woman and the New Hellenism
  • A.Ardis Narrating the Hysteric: Fin de Siecle Medical Discourse and Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins
  • A.Heilmann Staging the 'Private Theatre': Gender and the Auto-Erotics of Reverie
  • L.Marcus Scaping the Body: Of Cannibal Mothers and Colonial Landscapes
  • R.Stott Capturing the Idea: Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man
  • C.Burdett 'People Talk a Lot of Nonsense about Heredity': Mona Caird and Anti-Eugenic Feminism
  • A.Richardson The New Woman in Nowhere: Feminism and Utopianism at the Fin de Siecle
  • M.Beaumont The Next Generation: Stella Browne, the New Woman as Freewoman
  • L.A.Hall Women in British Aestheticism and the Decadence
  • R.Gagnier Index

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