The 'Improper' Feminine
The Women's Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy
| Author: | Lyn Pykett | ISBN: | 9781134944828 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | December 8, 2003 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Lyn Pykett |
| ISBN: | 9781134944828 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | December 8, 2003 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
The women's sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s were two major examples of a perceived feminine invasion of fiction which caused a critical furore in their day.
Both genres, with their shocking, `fast' heroines, fired the popular imagination by putting female sexuality on the literary agenda and undermining the `proper feminine' ideal to which nineteenth-century women and fictional heroines were supposed to aspire.
By exploring in impressive depth and breadth the material and discursive conditions in which these novels were produced, The `Improper' Feminine draws attention to key gendered interrelationships within the literary and wider cultures of the mid-Victorian and fin-de-diècle periods.
The women's sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s were two major examples of a perceived feminine invasion of fiction which caused a critical furore in their day.
Both genres, with their shocking, `fast' heroines, fired the popular imagination by putting female sexuality on the literary agenda and undermining the `proper feminine' ideal to which nineteenth-century women and fictional heroines were supposed to aspire.
By exploring in impressive depth and breadth the material and discursive conditions in which these novels were produced, The `Improper' Feminine draws attention to key gendered interrelationships within the literary and wider cultures of the mid-Victorian and fin-de-diècle periods.
