Overview
- Assesses the distinctive contributions of women writers to various dimensions of literary and social life in the period from 1830 to 1880
- Offers a new perspective on gender identity, professionalization, print culture, and place in women’s writing between 1830 and 1880
- Considers how women writers worked within and across genres in order to give distinctive voice to the challenges of a rapidly industrializing society and the opportunities for taking the lead in shaping culture, especially modern concepts of identity
Part of the book series: History of British Women's Writing (HBWW)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (19 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Introduction: The ‘Business’ of Writing Women
-
Divisions of Writing
-
Front Matter
-
-
Writing Genres
-
Front Matter
-
-
Reading Women Writing Modernity
-
Front Matter
-
Keywords
About this book
This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period immediately before and during the reign of Queen Victoria. It demonstrates how, between 1830 and 1880, the woman writer became an agent of cultural formation and contestation, appealing to and enabling the growth of female readership while issuing a challenge to the authority of male writers and critics. Of especial importance were changing definitions of marriage, family and nation, of class, and of morality as well as new conceptions of sexuality and gender, and of sympathy and sensation. The result is a richly textured account of a radical and complex process of feminization whereby formal innovations in the different modes of writing by women became central to the aesthetic, social, and political formation of British culture and society in the nineteenth century.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Lucy Hartley is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, USA. She is the author of two books, Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture (2001) and Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Art and the Politics of Public Life (2017), as well as numerous articles on the political and aesthetic dimensions of nineteenth-century British culture.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The History of British Women's Writing, 1830-1880
Book Subtitle: Volume Six
Editors: Lucy Hartley
Series Title: History of British Women's Writing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58465-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58464-9Published: 27 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58465-6Published: 22 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-7840
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7859
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 349
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary History, British and Irish Literature, Fiction, Gender Studies