Outside the Pale : Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer /

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"In his 1850 article "Prostitution," W.R. Greg asserts that nineteenth-century society conceived of prostitutes as "far more out of the pale of humanity than negroes on a slave plantation or fellahs in a Pasha's dungeon." Elsie B. Michie here provides insightful reading...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michie, Elsie B. (Elsie Browning), 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1993.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Women authors, English > Social conditions.
Women and literature.
English literature > Women authors.
English literature.
Authorship > Sex differences.
Authors, English > Social conditions.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Écrivaines anglaises > Conditions sociales.
Écrivains anglais > 19e siecle > Conditions sociales.
Art d'ecrire > Differences entre sexes.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et litterature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
Écrivaines anglaises > 19e siecle > Conditions sociales.
Women authors, English > 19th century > Social conditions.
Authors, English > 19th century > Social conditions.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Matters That Appertain to the Imagination": Accounting for Production in Frankenstein
  • "The Yahoo, Not the Demon": Heathcliff, Rochester, and the Simianization of the Irish
  • "My Story as My Own Property": Gaskell, Dickens, and the Rhetoric of Prostitution
  • "Those That Will Not Work": Prostitutes, Property, Gaskell, and Dickens
  • "High Art and Science Always Require the Whole Man": Culture and Menstruation in Middlemarch.

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