Download or read book The Girls of the Period Or the Island of Nowarpartickilar A Folly Played as a Lever Du Rideau at Drury Lane Theatre February 25th 1869 Etc written by Francis Cowley Burnand and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Theatre Arts written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Eve s Renegades written by Valerie Sanders and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the work of four Victorian anti-feminist women writers-- Eliza Linton, Charlotte Yonge, Mrs. H. Ward, and Margaret Oliphant-- and asks why, despite their own liberated lifestyles, they publicly opposed the advancement of women. Surveys women's anti- feminist attitudes after Mary Wollstonecraft's death, as well as selections from the novelists' best known works and journalism, examining their construction of gender ideals, criticism of the church, and their antagonism to literary predecessors such as Jane Austin and George Eliot. The author stresses their inconsistencies, and suggests that their novels reveal a strong attraction to the world of work. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Reviewing Sex written by N. Thompson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-03-25 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviewing Sex: Gender and the Reception of Victorian Novels looks at the influence of Victorian definitions of gender on the cultural processes of reading and canon formation in nineteenth-century England, examining the reception of several mid-century works in over 100 Victorian book reviews. This study investigates four canonical and popular novelists (Emily Bronte, Anthony Trollope, Charles Reade, Charlotte Yonge), all of whom caused high cultural commotions by epitomizing or subverting contemporary definitions of 'masculine' or 'feminine' writing.
Download or read book Historical Memoirs of the Queens of England from the Commencement of the Twelfth Century written by Hannah Lawrance and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Women of Letters written by Julia Kavanagh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent biographical companion to women novelists brought to attention in the Victorian mind the literary importance of women writers.
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Download or read book Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question written by Nicola Diane Thompson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was first published in 1999. This collection of essays by leading scholars from Britain, the USA and Canada opens up the limited landscape of Victorian novels by focusing attention on some of the women writers popular in their own time but forgotten or neglected by literary history. Spanning the entire Victorian period, this study investigates particularly the role and treatment of 'the woman question' in the second half of the century. There are discussions of marriage, matriarchy and divorce, satire, suffragette writing, writing for children, and links between literature and art. Moving from Margaret Oliphant and Charlotte Mary Yonge to Mary Ward, Marie Corelli, 'Ouida' and E. Nesbit, this book illuminates the complex cultural and literary roles, and the engaging contributions, of Victorian women writers.
Download or read book Victorian Women s Fiction written by Shirley Foster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have challenged contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women's fiction shows how 19th century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and alternative of single or professional life.
Download or read book Subjugated Knowledges written by Laurel Brake and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subjugated Knowledges is an absorbing account of the cultural formations of Victorian journalism. It will be of interest to all students of Victorian literature and history, and of media, cultural and gender studies.
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