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    The woman in white / by Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889

    Published 1994
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    The Woman in the Window : Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel / by Valentino, Russell Scott, 1962-

    Published 2014
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: In search of (Russian) virtue -- Three modern characters : the double, the con man, and the woman in the window -- The commercial ethic in Gogol's Dead souls -- In search of the virtuous man : minor readings -- Lara, Lolita, and other things that start with L -- Conclusion: DeLillo's Cosmopolis and the end of an idiom.…”
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    The New Woman and the Empire / by Jusová, Iveta, 1966-

    Published 2005
    Table of Contents: “…Sarah Grand: the new woman as an imperialist feminist -- George Egerton: Nietzschean feminism -- Elizabeth Robins: women's self-determination vs. state control -- Amy Levy: the Anglo-Jewish new woman.…”
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    What is a woman to do? a reader on women, work and art, c. 1830-1890 /

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…Fame, reputation, and the public woman.…”
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    The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature / by Losano, Antonia Jacqueline

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…Prevailing winds and cross-currents : public discourse and the history of Victorian women painters -- Desire and feminist aesthetics in Anne Brontë's The tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Ekphrasis and the art of courtship in Jane Eyre -- Making a living : Howitt, Eliot, Oliphant -- The afterlife of Angelica Kauffman -- Disfigurement and beauty in Dinah Craik and Charlotte Yonge -- Painting the new woman : Mary Ward and the woman artist.…”
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    Educating the Proper Woman Reader : Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation / by Phegley, Jennifer

    Published 2004
    Table of Contents: “…The scene of women's reading : mid-nineteenth century culture, professional critics, and family literary magazines -- Piracy and the patriotic woman reader : making British literature American in Harper's new monthly magazine, 1850-1855 -- The education and professionalization of the woman reader : consolidating middleclass power in the Cornhill magazine, 1860-1864 -- (Im)proper reading for women : Belgravia magazine and the defense of the sensation novel, 1866-1871 -- Victoria's secret : the woman's movement from reader to writer/critic, 1863-1868.…”
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