Middlebrow Feminism in Classic British Detective Fiction - The Female Gentleman

Zusatztext 'The work of the five writers Schaub studies is not wholly conservative! but advances feminist assertion over the new woman fiction of the late Victorian period! giving success to the admittedly rare women able to reason and provide for themselves The study is well researched! well written! and readable.' M. S. Stephenson! University of Texas at Brownsville Informationen zum Autor MELISSA SCHAUB is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, USA. Her research focuses on literature by British women authors, particularly domestic, serial, and middlebrow novels. She teaches courses on British and women's literature, and especially enjoys introducing undergraduates to feminist readings of literature and history. Klappentext This is a feminist study of a recurring character type in classic British detective fiction by women - a woman who behaves like a Victorian gentleman. Exploring this character type leads to a new evaluation of the politics of classic detective fiction and the middlebrow novel as a whole. Zusammenfassung This is a feminist study of a recurring character type in classic British detective fiction by women - a woman who behaves like a Victorian gentleman. Exploring this character type leads to a new evaluation of the politics of classic detective fiction and the middlebrow novel as a whole. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: Middlebrow Women and Detective Fiction Victorian Contexts: Failed Gentlemen and New Women Anatomy of the Female Gentleman Conclusion: Assessing the Female Gentleman Bibliography Index

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• Authors: M Schaub, M. Schaub, Melissa Schaub
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349446902
• ISBN: 978-1-349-44690-2
• No. of pages: 171
• Series: Crime Files; Crime Files
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Feminism, Fiction, Feminism & feminist theory, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminist Theory, Feminism and feminist theory, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, detective fiction;feminism;fiction;novel;Victorian era;women