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The Gender of Modernism : A Critical Anthology /

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Women and Romance : The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel / by Langbauer, Laurie

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Shari Benstock and Celeste Schenck -- Acknowledgments / Laurie Langbauer -- Introduction -- The romance of history, or Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, sometimes -- Diverting romance : Charlotte Lennox's The female Quixote -- An early romance : the ideology of the body in Mary Wollstonecraft's writing -- Streetwalkers and homebodies : Dickens's romantic women -- Recycling patriarchy's garbage : George Eliot's pessimism and the problem of a site for feminism -- Conclusion.…”
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Tainted Souls and Painted Faces : The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture / by Anderson, Amanda, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Mid-Victorian conceptions of character, agency, and reform: social science and the "great social evil" -- "The taint the very tale conveyed": self-reading, suspicion, and falleness in Dickens -- Melodrama, morbidity, and unthinking sympathy: Gaskell's Mary Barton and Ruth -- Dramatic monologue in crisis: agency and exchange in G.G. …”
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Other Mothers : Beyond the Maternal Ideal /

Table of Contents: “…Mcmahon -- Conceiving the nation: visions and versions of colonial prenatality / Deirdre Osborne -- Orphan stories and maternal legacies in Charlotte Brontë / Mary Jean Corbett -- Distance mothering and the "Cradle lands": imperial motherhood and Lady Duff Gordon's Letters from Egypt / Cara Murray -- The text as child: gender/sex and metaphors of maternity at the Fin de siecle / Brenda R. …”
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