British Women's Writing from Brontė to Bloomsbury, Volume 1: 1840s and 1850s 2018 Edition Contributor(s): Gavin, Adrienne E. (Editor), De La L. Oulton, Carolyn W. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3319782258 ISBN-13: 9783319782256 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $123.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 809.034 |
Series: British Women's Writing from Brontė to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940 |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.14 lbs) 278 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This five-volume series, British Women's Writing From Bront to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women's fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessing both canonical and lesser-known British women's writing decade by decade, it redefines the landscape of women's authorship across a century of dynamic social and cultural change. With each of its volumes devoted to two decades, the series is wide in scope but historically sharply defined. Volume 1: 1840s and 1850s inaugurates the series by historically and culturally contextualizing Victorian women's writing distinctly within the 1840s and 1850s. Using a range of critical perspectives including political and literary history, feminist approaches, disability studies, and the history of reading, the volume's 16 original essays consider such developments as the construction of a post-Romantic tradition, the politicization of the domestic sphere, and the development of crime and sensation writing. Centrally, it reassesses key mid-nineteenth-century female authors in the context in which they first published while also recovering neglected women writers who helped to shape the literary landscape of the 1840s and 1850s. |