Women's University Fiction, 1880-1945

Informationen zum Autor Anna Bogen Klappentext The rise of the middle classes brought a sharp increase in the number of young men and women able to attend university. Developing in the wake of this increase, the university novel often centred on male undergraduates at either Oxford or Cambridge. Bogen argues that an analysis of the lesser known female narratives can provide new insights. Zusammenfassung The rise of the middle classes brought a sharp increase in the number of young men and women able to attend university. Developing in the wake of this increase! the university novel often centred on male undergraduates at either Oxford or Cambridge. Bogen argues that an analysis of the lesser known female narratives can provide new insights. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: Dreaming Spires; Chapter 1a From Public Scandal to Minority Pleasure: The Form, Content and Readership of the University Bildungsroman; Chapter 2 ‘The Praise of Uselessness’: Liberal Education; Chapter 3 ‘Gentlewomen, Scholars and Saints’: Religion; Chapter 4 ‘Home without an Aspidistra’: The Home, the College and the Local; Chapter 5 The Divided Self and the Communal Cause: War, Politics and the Self; Chapter 6 ‘Delightfully Self-Assured, Delightfully Self-Conscious’: The Undergraduate Literary Scene; Chapter 7 ‘Eros in Academe’: Sexuality and the Body; conclusion Conclusion;

Product details

• Authors: Anna Bogen, Bogen Anna
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2013
• EAN: 9781848934085
• ISBN: 978-1-84893-408-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Literary Texts and the Popular; Literary Texts and the Popular Marketplace; Literary Texts and the Popular Marketplace
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form