Sisters in time : imagining gender in nineteenth-century British fiction /

Asking why the 19th-century British novel features heroines, and how and why it features "feminine heroism," Susan Morgan traces the relationship between fictional depictions of gender and Victorian ideas of history and progress. Morgan approaches gender in selected 19th-century British no...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morgan, Susan, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
Temas:
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Heroines in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Women in literature.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Héroïnes dans la littérature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction.
Fiction in English > Characters
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Imagining Gender in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction; 2. Why There's No Sex in Jane Austen's Fiction; 3. Old Heroes and a New Heroine in the Waverley Novels; 4. Gaskell's Daughters in Time; 5. Paradise Reconsidered: Eliot's Edens Without Eve; 6. "Deeply a Woman, Dumbly a Poet": Language as Betrayal in Meredith's Later Fiction; 7. The Feminine Heroic Tradition and Henry James; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.

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