Overview
- Looks at key texts from the George Eliot, Anna Sewell and Elizabeth Gaskell
- Touches on issues as diverse as mobility, philanthropy and female desire
- Looks at some lesser-studied texts in addition to texts like Black Beauty and Silas Marner
Part of the book series: British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940 (BWWFBB, volume 2)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
contextualizes and traces developments in women’s fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessing
both canonical and lesser-known British women’s writing decade by decade, it redefines the landscape
of women’s authorship across a century of dynamic social and cultural change. With each of
its volumes devoted to two decades, the series is wide in scope but historically sharply defined.
Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s continues the series by historically and culturally contextualizing Victorian
women’s writing distinctly within the 1860s and 1870s. Covering a range of fictional approaches,
including short stories, religiously inflected novels, and comic writing the volume’s 16 original essays
consider such developments as the sensation craze, the impact of new technologies, and the career
opportunities opening for women. Centrally, it reassesses key nineteenth-century female authors inthe context in which they first published while also recovering neglected women writers who helped
to shape the literary landscape of the 1860s and 1870s.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Adrienne E. Gavin is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Co-founder and Honorary Director of the International Centre for Victorian Women Writers (ICVWW), Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Carolyn Oulton is Professor of Victorian Literature and Co-founder and Director of the International Centre for Victorian Women Writers (ICVWW), Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2
Book Subtitle: 1860s and 1870s
Editors: Adrienne E. Gavin, Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
Series Title: British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38528-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38527-9Published: 27 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38530-9Published: 27 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38528-6Published: 26 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-7160
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7179
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 291
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Fiction, British and Irish Literature