Antifeminism and the Victorian novel; rereading nineteenth-century women writers.

9781604976076

Antifeminism and the Victorian novel; rereading nineteenth-century women writers.

Ed. by Tamara S. Wagner.

Cambria Press

2009

327 pages

$114.99

Hardcover

PR115

This volume, which aims to bring to light works that have been overlooked because they do not fit into neat categories and to rethink women authors' roles in Victorian literary culture, brings together 15 chapters that illustrate the problems and contradictions in labeling women's writing from the Victorian period and how these works resist categorization as antifeminist, domestic, and popular. Emphasizing the idea that Victorian literature should not be labeled feminist or antifeminist, English, literature, and drama scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia discuss popular fiction by Eliza Lynn Linton, Margaret Oliphant, Sarah Grand, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Dinah Mulock Craik, and Charlotte Yonge, as well as her magazine The Monthly Packet, and the weekly newspaper the Dorothy Novelette. Wagner (Nanyang Technological U, Singapore) includes essays that address feminist elements in the writings, their complexities, and the gray area between feminism and antifeminism.

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