Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women''s Writing

Innovative and comprehensive coverage of women writers' careers and literary achievements spanning many literary genres during the Victorian period.

List of contents

Introduction: Victorian women writers and modern literary criticism Linda H. Peterson; Part I. Victorian Women Writers' Careers: 1. Making a debut Alexis Easley; 2. Becoming a professional writer Joanne Shattock; 3. Working with publishers Linda H. Peterson; 4. Assuming the role of editor Beth Palmer; 5. Achieving fame and canonicity Alison Chapman; Part II. Victorian Women Writers' Achievements: Genres and Modes: 6. Poetry Linda K. Hughes; 7. Silver-fork, industrial, and Gothic fiction Ella Dzelzainis; 8. The Realist novel Deirdre d'Albertis; 9. Sensation and New Woman fiction Lyn Pykett; 10. Drama and theater Katherine Newey; 11. Life writing Carol Hanberry Mackay; 12. Travel writing Tamara S. Wagner; 13. Colonial and imperial writing Mary Ellis Gibson and Jason R. Rudy; 14. History writing Deborah A. Logan; 15. Periodical writing Margaret Beetham; 16. Reviewing Joanne Wilkes; 17. Children's writing Claudia Nelson.

Summary

A comprehensive, accessible and informative collection of essays exploring women writers of the Victorian period, focusing on their careers and the wide range of literary work they produced, from fiction, poetry and drama to reviewing, travel writing and children's literature. It also includes a chronology and guide to further reading.

Product details

• Authors: Linda H. Peterson, Linda H. (Yale University Peterson
• Assisted by: Linda H. Peterson (Editor), Linda H. (Yale University Peterson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107659612
• ISBN: 978-1-107-65961-2
• No. of pages: 319
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies