1st Edition

Courtship and the English Novel Feminist Readings in the Fiction of George Meredith

By Janet Horowitz Murray Copyright 1987
    186 Pages
    by Routledge

    186 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1987, these essays deal with the three major novels of George Meredith. It explores in particular Meredith’s feminism and demonstrates how each novel embodies his very modern views of the relations between the sexes.

    This book will be of interest to those studying 19th Century literature and feminism.

    Introduction: Courtship and the English Novel; 1. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A Novel with a Hero 2. The Egoist and the New Woman 3. Diana of the Crossways: The Heroine of Reality; Bibliography

    Biography

    Janet Horowitz Murray