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British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2
eBook - 1860s and 1870s, British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840
ISBN/EAN: 9783030385286
Umbreit-Nr.: 9790902
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Englisch
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Erschienen am 26.08.2020
Auflage: 1/2020
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- Zusatztext
- <div>This five-volume series,<i>British Womens Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 18401940</i>, historically</div><div>contextualizes and traces developments in womens fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessing</div><div>both canonical and lesser-known British womens writing decade by decade, it redefines the landscape</div><div>of womens authorship across a century of dynamic social and cultural change. With each of</div><div>its volumes devoted to two decades, the series is wide in scope but historically sharply defined.</div><div><br></div><div><i>Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s</i> continues the series by historically and culturally contextualizing Victorian</div><div>womens writing distinctly within the 1860s and 1870s. Covering a range of fictional approaches,</div><div>including short stories, religiously inflected novels, and comic writing the volumes 16 original essays</div><div>consider such developments as the sensation craze, the impact of new technologies, and the career</div>opportunities opening for women. Centrally, it reassesses key nineteenth-century female authors in<div>the context in which they first published while also recovering neglected women writers who helped</div><div>to shape the literary landscape of the 1860s and 1870s.</div>
- Kurztext
- This five-volume series, British Women's Writing From Bronte to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historicallycontextualizes and traces developments in women's fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessingboth canonical and lesser-known British women's writing decade by decade, it redefines the landscapeof women's authorship across a century of dynamic social and cultural change. With each ofits volumes devoted to two decades, the series is wide in scope but historically sharply defined.Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s continues the series by historically and culturally contextualizing Victorianwomen's writing distinctly within the 1860s and 1870s. Covering a range of fictional approaches,including short stories, religiously inflected novels, and comic writing the volume's 16 original essaysconsider such developments as the sensation craze, the impact of new technologies, and the careeropportunities opening for women. Centrally, it reassesses key nineteenth-century female authors inthe context in which they first published while also recovering neglected women writers who helpedto shape the literary landscape of the 1860s and 1870s.
- Autorenportrait
- <p>Adrienne E. Gavin is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Co-founder and Honorary Director of the International Centre for Victorian Women Writers (ICVWW), Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.</p><p>Carolyn Oulton is Professor of Victorian Literature and Co-founder and Director of the International Centre for Victorian Women Writers (ICVWW), Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.</p><br>