British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2 1860s and 1870s /

British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2 1860s and 1870s /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Gavin, Adrienne E. (Editor), de la L. Oulton, Carolyn W. (Editor)
Summary:XXVI, 291 p. 3 illus.
text
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Edition:1st ed. 2020.
Series:British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840–1940, 2
Subjects:
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
Fiction.
European literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Fiction Literature.
European Literature.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38528-6
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • 1.Introduction; Adrienne E. Gavin and Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
  • 2. A Decade of Experiment: George Eliot in the 1860s; Margaret Harris
  • 3. ‘Duck him!’: Private Feelings, Public Interests, and Ellen Wood’s East Lynne; Tara MacDonald
  • 4. [Tr]ains of Circumstantial Evidence: Railway ‘Monomania’ and Investigations of Gender in Lady Audley’s Secret; Andrew F. Humphries
  • 5. ‘There is great need for forgiveness in this world': The Call for Reconciliation in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers and A Dark Night’s Work; Elizabeth Ludlow
  • 6. ‘The plain duties which are set before me’: Charity, Agency, and Women’s Work in the 1860s; Kristine Moruzi
  • 7.‘[S]mothered under rose-leaves’: Violent Sensation and the Location of the Feminine in Eliza Lynn Linton’s Sowing the Wind; Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
  • 8. ‘Fleshly Inclinations’: The Nature of Female Desire in Rhoda Broughton’s Early Fiction; Tamar Heller
  • 9. Crumbs from the Table: Matilda Betham-Edwards’ Comic Writing in Punch; Clare Horrocks and Nickianne Moody
  • 10. Transcending Prudence: Charlotte Riddell’s ‘City Women’; Silvana Colella
  • 11. ‘[M]ute orations, mute rhapsodies, mute discussions’: Silence in George Eliot’s Last Decade; Fionnuala Dillane
  • 12.‘His eyes commanded me to come to him’: Desire and Mesmerism in Rhoda Broughton’s ‘The Man with the Nose’; Melissa Purdue
  • 13. ‘[E]mphatically un-literary and middle-classʼ: Undressing Middle-Class Anxieties in Ellen Wood’s Johnny Ludlow Stories; Alyson Hunt
  • 14. ‘Sinecures which could be held by girls’: Margaret Oliphant and Women’s Labour; Danielle Charette
  • 15. ‘More like a woman stuck into boy’s clothes’: Transcendent Femininity in Florence Marryat’sHer Father’s Name; Catherine Pope
  • 16. ‘I am writing the life of a horse’: Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty in the 1870s; Adrienne E. Gavin
  • 17. Forging a New Path: Fraud and White-Collar Crime in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s 1870s Fiction; Janine Hatter. .

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