Scottish Women''s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century - The Romance of Everyday Life

Nineteenth-century Scotswomen turned from the grand adventures of Walter Scott's historical romances to the splendour and exhilaration of everyday life.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Scottish Novel after Scott; 1. Oliphant, Scott, and the Novelist's Trade; 2. Annie S. Swan's Friendly Fiction; 3. The Scottish New Woman and the Art of Self-Sacrifice; 4. The Colonial Adventure Story and the Return of Romance; 5. Scottish Modernism and Middlebrow Aesthetics; Conclusion: The Ethics and Politics of Transfiguring the Commonplace.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

JULIET SHIELDS is a Professor of English at the University of Washington. She is also the author of Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity (2010) and Nation and Migration: the Making of British Atlantic Literature (2016).

Zusammenfassung

Introducing the neglected tradition of Scottish women's writing to readers who may already be familiar with English Victorian realism or the historical romances of Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, this book corrects male-dominated histories of the Scottish novel by demonstrating how women appropriated the masculine genre of romance.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Juliet Shields, Juliet (University of Washington) Shields, Shields Juliet
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781316518267
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51826-7
• Seiten: 220
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Gender studies: women, Central Scotland, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form