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Concentrating on a period of significant social and political change and exploring both canonical and newly rediscovered texts, this book critically assess the changing culture of the late-Victorian period as represented by a range of women writers through a range of essays by leading academics in the field and cutting-edge work by newer scholars.
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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Foreword; L.H.Peterson 'She would Write...in Invisible Ink': An Introduction; A.E.Gavin & C.W. de la L.Oulton PART I: POETICS AND AESTHETICS Re-Viewing Women Writers of the Fin de Siècle : Recent Critical Trends; L.Pykett Sons of Fire and A Lost Eden: Expectations of Narrative and Protocols of Reading in Mary Braddon's Fin-de-Siècle Fiction; G.Malcolm 'The Method of Life we all Lead': Olive Schreiner's Short Fiction as Challenge to the Stage Method; S.Eggermont 'Let Your Life on Earth Be Life Indeed': Aestheticism and Secularism in Mathilde Blind's The Prophecy of St. Oran and 'On a Torso of Cupid'; S.Lyons Editing Michael Field: Taking Fin-de-Siècle Women's Poetry to a Broader Audience; M.Thain & A.P.Vadillo PART II: DOMESTICITY AND DEVIANCE 'I am Not by Nature Domestic': Mary Cholmondeley and the Politics of Home; C.W. de la L.Oulton Having a Good Time Single?: The Bachelor Girl in 1890s New Woman Fiction; E.Liggins Fin-de-Siècle Female Biographers and the Reconsideration of Popular Women Writers; J.Atkinson 'I have Expiated my Sins to you at Last': Motherhood in Victoria Cross's Colonial Fiction; M.Purdue 'C. L. Pirkis (not 'Miss')': Public Women, Private Lives, and the Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective; A.E.Gavin III: GENDER AND THE BODY The Seventh Wave of Humanity: Hysteria and Moral Evolution in Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins; N.Hetherington 'A Queer Sort of Interest': Vernon Lee's Homoerotic Allusion to John Singer Sargent and John Addington Symonds; C.Maxwell Under the Hill: The 'Man Question' in the New Woman Novels of Marie Corelli, Jessie Fothergill, and Mary Linskill; B.Ayres 'Your Loving is Unlike Any Other': Romance and the Disabled Body in the Gothic Fiction of Edith Nesbit and Lucas Malet; K.A.Miller Athletic Bodies Narrated: New Women in Fin-de-Siècle Fiction; T.J.R.Collins Index
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Concentrating on a period of significant social and political change and exploring both canonical and newly rediscovered texts, this book critically assess the changing culture of the late-Victorian period as represented by a range of women writers through a range of essays by leading academics in the field and cutting-edge work by newer scholars.
