Gone Girls, 1684-1901 - Flights of Feminist Resistance in Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century

Gone Girls, 1684-1901 examines how the persistent trope in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novels of female characters running away from home helped to shape both the novel form and modern feminism.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction: Flight As Fight


• 1: The Rise of the Runaway-Woman Novelist


• 2: Running with Feeling


• 3: It Was a Dark and Stormy Flight


• 4: The Ones Without the Manners


• 5: Lilith on the Moors, Lilith on the Floss, Lilith on the Heath


• 6: Fear of the Fast Young Lady


• 7: The New Runaway-Woman Novelist


• Epilogue: Gone Girls in Hollywood


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Nora Gilbert is an Associate Professor of English at the University of North Texas, where she jointly specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and twentieth-century American film. She is the author of Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Censorship, and the Benefits of Censorship (2013) and has published articles in such journals as PMLA, Film & History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Victorian Review, Eighteenth-Century Life, and JNT: The Journal of Narrative Theory. Since 2017, she has served as editor-in-chief of Studies in the Novel.

Summary

Gone Girls, 1684-1901 examines how the persistent trope in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novels of female characters running away from home helped to shape both the novel form and modern feminism.

Additional text

Nora Gilbert's wide-ranging account of the runaway woman plot revises in eye-opening ways the received wisdom about the gender politics of the British novelistic tradition ... Accessible, smart, impassioned, and original, Gone Girls, 1684-1901 is a book to keep close at hand.

Product details

• Authors: Gilbert , Dr Nora (Associate Professor of English Gilbert, Nora Gilbert, Nora (Associate Professor of English Gilbert, Gilbert Nora
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9780198876540
• ISBN: 978-0-19-887654-0
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Approaches to the Novel
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800