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A cultural icon of the fin de siecle , the New Woman was not one figure, but several. In the guise of a bicycling, cigarette-smoking Amazon, the New Woman romped through the pages of Punch and popular fiction; as a neurasthenic victim of social oppression, she suffered in the pages of New Woman novels such as Sarah Grand's hugely successful The Heavenly Twins . The New Woman in Fiction and Fact marks a radically new departure in nineteenth-century scholarship to explore the polyvocal nature of the late Victorian debates around gender, motherhood, class, race and imperialism which converged in the name of the New Woman.
ANN ARDIS Director, University Honours Program, University of Delaware MATTHEW BEAUMONT Researcher CAROLYN BURDETT Senior Lecturer in English, School of Arts and Humanities, University of North London GAIL CUNNINGHAM Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Human Science, Kingston University REGINIA GAGNIER Professor of English, University of Exeter LESLEY A. HALL Archivist, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and Honorary Lecturer, University College, London ANN HEILMANN Lecturer in English, Manchester Metropolitan University SALLY LEDGER Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London LAURA MARCUS Reader in English, University of Sussex LYN PYKETT Professor of English, University of Wales, Aberystwyth TALIA SCHAFFER Assistant Professor of English, Queens College, City University of New York REBECCA STOTT Reader in English Literature, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge SARAH WINTLE Senior Lecturer in English, University College, London
About the Author
ANGELIQUE RICHARDSON is Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on nineteenth-century literature and science, and is currently working on a study of Hardy and science. She is the author of Love, Eugenics and the New Woman: Science, Fiction, Feminism and editor of Women Who Did: Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914.
CHRIS WILLIS teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published a number of articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century popular fiction, and co-edited Twelve Women Detectives, a collection of early crime stories.
Reviews
'...extremely welcome and useful...This fine collection will be an asset to both teachers and researchers, and its wide range of sources and arguments make it a perfect text...propel New Woman studies into another new century.' - Thomas Hardy Journal 'Essential reading for anyone interested in the late Victorian period.' - Nineteenth-Century Feminisms '...in a rich variety of discussions of British literature, politics and aesthetics at the fin de siecle, this collection reminds us once more, in the words of Rita Felski, of women's central importance in the analysis of modernity.'... - Times Literary Supplement '...a valuable resource for late Victorian studies and a pleasure to peruse.' - Patricia Murphy, Victorian Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9780333990452
Author A. Richardson
Format Paperback
Page Count 258
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
ANN ARDIS Director, University Honours Program, University of Delaware MATTHEW BEAUMONT Researcher CAROLYN BURDETT Senior Lecturer in English, School of Arts and Humanities, University of North London GAIL CUNNINGHAM Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Human Science, Kingston University REGINIA GAGNIER Professor of English, University of Exeter LESLEY A. HALL Archivist, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and Honorary Lecturer, University College, London ANN HEILMANN Lecturer in English, Manchester Metropolitan University SALLY LEDGER Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London LAURA MARCUS Reader in English, University of Sussex LYN PYKETT Professor of English, University of Wales, Aberystwyth TALIA SCHAFFER Assistant Professor of English, Queens College, City University of New York REBECCA STOTT Reader in English Literature, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge SARAH WINTLE Senior Lecturer in English, University College, London
About the Author
ANGELIQUE RICHARDSON is Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on nineteenth-century literature and science, and is currently working on a study of Hardy and science. She is the author of Love, Eugenics and the New Woman: Science, Fiction, Feminism and editor of Women Who Did: Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914.
CHRIS WILLIS teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published a number of articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century popular fiction, and co-edited Twelve Women Detectives, a collection of early crime stories.
Reviews
'...extremely welcome and useful...This fine collection will be an asset to both teachers and researchers, and its wide range of sources and arguments make it a perfect text...propel New Woman studies into another new century.' - Thomas Hardy Journal 'Essential reading for anyone interested in the late Victorian period.' - Nineteenth-Century Feminisms '...in a rich variety of discussions of British literature, politics and aesthetics at the fin de siecle, this collection reminds us once more, in the words of Rita Felski, of women's central importance in the analysis of modernity.'... - Times Literary Supplement '...a valuable resource for late Victorian studies and a pleasure to peruse.' - Patricia Murphy, Victorian Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9780333990452
Author A. Richardson
Format Paperback
Page Count 258
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
