Search Results - "Woman"

The New Woman and the Empire / by Jusová, Iveta, 1966-

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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The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature / by Losano, Antonia Jacqueline

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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Allegories of empire the figure of woman in the colonial text / by Sharpe, Jenny

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The "improper" feminine the women's sensation novel and the new woman writing / by Pykett, Lyn

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Framed : The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siecle / by Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Private and public eyes : Sherlock Holmes and the invisible woman -- Beautiful for ever! cosmetics, consumerism, L.T. …”
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Framed the new woman criminal in British culture at the Fin de Siècle / by Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Private and public eyes : Sherlock Holmes and the invisible woman -- Beautiful for ever! cosmetics, consumerism, L.T. …”
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Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siecle : The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel / by Youngkin, Molly, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The woman's press at the fin de siecle -- "They are learning to think ... for themselves" : consciousness raised -- "What the girl says" : spoken word as political tool -- Women at work, at war, and on the go : feminist action -- "The realistic method in its best expression" : successful representations of woman's agency and literary reputations -- Engaging and shaping modernism.…”
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Spatial dynamics and female development in Victorian art and novels creating a woman's space / by Piehler, Liana F., 1971-

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The not so blank "blank page" the politics of narrative and the woman narrator in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English novel / by Tsomondo, Thorell Porter

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Chick lit and postfeminism by Harzewski, Stephanie, 1974-

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The flirt's tragedy desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / by Kaye, Richard A., 1960-

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Plots of Opportunity : Representing Conspiracy in Victorian England / by Pionke, Albert D., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Italian union : red republicanism, The woman in white and Lothair.…”
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Bleak houses marital violence in Victorian fiction / by Surridge, Lisa A. (Lisa Anne), 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Private violence in the public eye: the early writings of Charles Dickens -- Domestic violence and middle-class manliness: Dombey and Son -- From regency violence to Victorian feminism: The tenant of Wildfell Hall -- The abused woman and the community: "Janet's repentance" -- Strange revelations: the divorce court, the newspaper, and The woman in white -- The private eye and the public gaze: He knew he was right -- Marital violence and the new woman: The wing of Azrael -- "Are women protected?" …”
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Medical women and Victorian fiction by Swenson, Kristine, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Medical women old and new -- Angels of mercy -- Nightmare figures : backlash against the new nurse -- Sex and fair play : establishing the woman doctor -- The new woman doctor novel -- Medical women and imperial fiction.…”
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The Other Side of the Story : Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives / by Hite, Molly, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Writing in the margins: Jean Rhys -- The future in a different shape: broken form and possibility in The golden notebook -- Romance, marginality, matrilineage: The color purple -- Other side, other woman: Lady oracle.…”
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Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice / by Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Toward a feminist poetics of narrative voice -- The rise of the novel, the fall of the voice: Juliette Catesby's silencing -- In a class by herself: self-silencing in Riccoboni's Abeille -- Sense and reticence: Jane Austen's "Indirections" -- Woman of Maxims: Geoge Eliot and the realist imperative -- Fictions of absence: feminism, modernism, Virginia Woolf -- Unspeakable voice: Toni Morrison's postmodern authority -- Dying for publicity: Mistriss Henley's self-silencing -- Romantic voice: the hero's text -- Jane Eyre's legacy: the powers and dangers of singularity -- African-American personal voice: "her hungriest lack" -- Solidarity and silence: Millenium Hall and The wrongs of woman -- Single resistances: the communal "I" in Gaskell, Jewett, and Audoux -- (Dif)fusions: modern fiction and communal form -- Full circle: Les Guerilleres.…”
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The nineteenth-century sensation novel by Pykett, Lyn

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Romantic narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft / by Rajan, Tilottama

Table of Contents: “…: Godwin's editing of Mary Wollstonecraft's The wrongs of woman.…”
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Romantic Narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft / by Rajan, Tilottama

Table of Contents: “…: Godwin's editing of Mary Wollstonecraft's The wrongs of woman.…”
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Experiencing Fiction : Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative / by Phelan, James, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Judgments, progressions, and the rhetorical experience of narrative -- Jane Austen's experiment in narrative comedy : the beginning and early middle of Persuasion -- Sethe's choice and Toni Morrison's strategies : the beginning and middle of Beloved -- Chicago criticism, new criticism, cultural thematics, and rhetorical poetics -- Progressing toward surprise : Edith Wharton's "Roman fever" -- Delayed disclosure and the problem of other minds : Ian McEwan's Atonement -- Rhetorical aesthetics within rhetorical poetics -- Interlacings of narrative and lyric : Ernest Hemingway's "A clean, well-lighted place" and Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Narrative in the service of portraiture : Alice Munro's "Prue" and Ann Beattie's "Janus" -- Dramatic dialogue as lyric narrative : Robert Frost's "Home burial" -- Experiencing fiction and its corpus : extensions to nonfiction narrative and synthetic fiction.…”
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