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Victorian Women's Fiction Marriage, Freedom, and the Individual
By Shirley Foster
Copyright 1985
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women’s fiction shows how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and the often more attractive alternative of single or professional life. In arguing... Read more
1. Introductory: Women and Marriage in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England 2. Dinah Mulock Craik: Ambivalent Romanticism 3. Charlotte Bronté: A Vision of Duality 4. Elizabeth Sewell: The Triumph of Singleness 5. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Wife’s View 6. George Eliot: Conservative Unorthodoxy
Biography
Shirley Foster
