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Odd women? : spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s-1930s /
Women outside marriage between 1850 and the Second World War were seen as abnormal, threatening, superfluous and incomplete, whilst also being hailed as 'women of the future'. Before 1850 odd women were marginalised, minor characters, yet by the 1930s spinsters, lesbians and widows had bec...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester ; New York :
Manchester University Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Women outside marriage between 1850 and the Second World War were seen as abnormal, threatening, superfluous and incomplete, whilst also being hailed as 'women of the future'. Before 1850 odd women were marginalised, minor characters, yet by the 1930s spinsters, lesbians and widows had become heroines. This book considers how Victorian and modernist women's writing challenged the heterosexual plot and reconfigured conceptualisations of public and private space in order to valorise female oddity. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 275 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781526111654 1526111659 9781781707296 1781707294 1781706859 9781781706855 |