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Writing Women of the Fin de Siècle
Authors of Change
ISBN/EAN: 9780230343429
Umbreit-Nr.: 9056461
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xviii, 228 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 08.11.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
- Zusatztext
- Concentrating on a period of significant social and political change and exploring both canonical and newly rediscovered texts, this book critically assess the changing culture of the late-Victorian period as represented by a range of women writers through a range of essays by leading academics in the field and cutting-edge work by newer scholars.
- Kurztext
- Includes contributions from leading scholars in the field (including a foreword from Linda Peterson, and new essay from Lyn Pykett)Taps into flourishing interest in fin de siècle writing (and increasing numbers of university courses on this period)Contextualizes the interest in New Woman literature with a wider consideration of women's writing in the late Victorian periodDiscusses key writers of the period, including Olive Schreiner, Mary Braddon, Michael Field, Vernon Lee
- Autorenportrait
- JULIETTE ATKINSON British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University College London, UK BRENDA AYRES Professor and Assistant Honors Director, Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA TRACY J. R. COLLINS Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University, USA STEPHANIE EGGERMONT Junior Researcher, Leuven Centre for Irish Studies, Belgium NAOMI HETHERINGTON Birkbeck, University of London, UK EMMA LIGGINS Lecturer in English Literature, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK SARA LYONS Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. GABRIELLE MALCOLM Independent Scholar, UK CATHERINE MAXWELL Professor of Victorian Literature, Queen Mary, University of London, UK KATHLEEN A. MILLER Ph.D. Candidate, University of Delaware, USA lLINDA H. PETERSON Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English, Yale University, USA MELISSA PURDUE Assistant Professor, Minnesota State University-Mankato, USA LYN PYKETT Emeritus Professor, Department of English and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University, UK MARION THAIN Senior Lecturer in English, University of Birmingham, UK ABA PAREJO VADILLO Birkbeck College, University of London, UK