The History of British Women's Writing, 1830-1880
Volume Six
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Beschreibung
This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period immediately before and during the reign of Queen Victoria. It demonstrates how, between 1830 and 1880, the woman writer became an agent of cultural formation and contestation, appealing to and enabling the growth of female readership while issuing a challenge to the authority of male writers and critics. Of especial importance were changing definitions of marriage, family and nation, of class, and of morality as well as new conceptions of sexuality and gender, and of sympathy and sensation. The result is a richly textured account of a radical and complex process of feminization whereby formal innovations in the different modes of writing by women became central to the aesthetic, social, and political formation of British culture and society in the nineteenth century.
Assesses the distinctive contributions of women writers to various dimensions of literary and social life in the period from 1830 to 1880 Offers a new perspective on gender identity, professionalization, print culture, and place in women’s writing between 1830 and 1880 Considers how women writers worked within and across genres in order to give distinctive voice to the challenges of a rapidly industrializing society and the opportunities for taking the lead in shaping culture, especially modern concepts of identity
Autor*in
Lucy Hartley
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British women's writing Authorship and gender Professional woman writer Victorian women writers Victorian female readership British and Irish Literature