The Cambridge companion to Victorian women's writing

Book 2015

"Leading scholars provide innovative and comprehensive coverage of Victorian women writers' careers and literary achievements. While incorporating the scholarly insights of modern feminist criticism, it also reflects new approaches to women authors that have emerged with the rise of book history; periodical studies; performance studies; post-colonial studies; and scholarship on authorship, readership, and publishing. It traces the Victorian woman...

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English literature 19th century History and criticism

English literature Women authors History and criticism

Publishers and publishing Great Britain History 19th century

Women and literature Great Britain History 19th century

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Cambridge companions to literature

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ISBN:

9781107659612

Description:

xxi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Introduction: Victorian women writers and modern literary criticism / Linda H. Peterson
Part I. Victorian Women Writers' Careers: 1. Making a debut / Alexis Easley; 2. Becoming a professional writer / Joanne Shattock; 3. Working with publishers / Linda H. Peterson; 4. Assuming the role of editor / Beth Palmer; 5. Achieving fame and canonicity / Alison Chapman
Part II. Victorian Women Writers' Achievements: Genres and Modes: 6. Poetry /Linda K. Hughes; 7. Silver-fork, industrial, and Gothic fiction / Ella Dzelzainis; 8. The Realist novel / Deirdre d'Albertis; 9. Sensation and New Woman fiction / Lyn Pykett; 10. Drama and theater / Katherine Newey; 11. Life writing / Carol Hanberry Mackay; 12. Travel writing / Tamara S. Wagner; 13. Colonial and imperial writing / Mary Ellis Gibson and Jason R. Rudy; 14. History writing / Deborah A. Logan; 15. Periodical writing / Margaret Beetham; 16. Reviewing / Joanne Wilkes; 17. Children's writing / Claudia Nelson

LCCN:

2015011595

Control Number:

2023217

Other Authors:

Peterson, Linda H., editor

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