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The New Woman in Fiction and Fact A. Richardson

The New Woman in Fiction and Fact By A. Richardson

The New Woman in Fiction and Fact by A. Richardson

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A cultural icon of the fin de siecle , the New Woman was not one figure, but several. The New Woman in Fiction and Fact marks a radically new departure in nineteenth-century scholarship to explore the polyvocal nature of the late Victorian debates around gender, motherhood, class, race and imperialism which converged in the name of the New Woman.

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The New Woman in Fiction and Fact: Fin-de-Siecle Feminisms by A. Richardson

A cultural icon of the fin de siecle , the New Woman was not one figure, but several. In the guise of a bicycling, cigarette-smoking Amazon, the New Woman romped through the pages of Punch and popular fiction; as a neurasthenic victim of social oppression, she suffered in the pages of New Woman novels such as Sarah Grand's hugely successful The Heavenly Twins . The New Woman in Fiction and Fact marks a radically new departure in nineteenth-century scholarship to explore the polyvocal nature of the late Victorian debates around gender, motherhood, class, race and imperialism which converged in the name of the New Woman.

The New Woman in Fiction and Fact Reviews

'...extremely welcome and useful...This fine collection will be an asset to both teachers and researchers, and its wide range of sources and arguments make it a perfect text...propel New Woman studies into another new century.' - Thomas Hardy Journal 'Essential reading for anyone interested in the late Victorian period.' - Nineteenth-Century Feminisms '...in a rich variety of discussions of British literature, politics and aesthetics at the fin de siecle, this collection reminds us once more, in the words of Rita Felski, of women's central importance in the analysis of modernity.'... - Times Literary Supplement '...a valuable resource for late Victorian studies and a pleasure to peruse.' - Patricia Murphy, Victorian Studies

About A. Richardson

ANGELIQUE RICHARDSON is Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on nineteenth-century literature and science, and is currently working on a study of Hardy and science. She is the author of Love, Eugenics and the New Woman: Science, Fiction, Feminism and editor of Women Who Did: Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914.

CHRIS WILLIS teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published a number of articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century popular fiction, and co-edited Twelve Women Detectives, a collection of early crime stories.

Table of Contents

Foreword; L.Pykett List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: A.Richardson & C.Willis 'Nothing but Foolscap and Ink', Inventing the New Woman; T.Schaffer Bicycles and Blue Stockings: Packaging the New Woman for Mass Consumption; C.Willis Horses, Bikes and Automobiles: New Women on the Move; S.Wintle Ibsen, the New Woman and the Actress; S.Ledger 'He-notes': Reconstructing Masculinity; G.Cunningham New Woman and the New Hellenism; A.Ardis Narrating the Hysteric: Fin de Siecle Medical Discourse and Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins ; A.Heilmann Staging the 'Private Theatre': Gender and the Auto-Erotics of Reverie; L.Marcus Scaping the Body: Of Cannibal Mothers and Colonial Landscapes; R.Stott Capturing the Idea: Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man; C.Burdett 'People Talk a Lot of Nonsense about Heredity': Mona Caird and Anti-Eugenic Feminism; A.Richardson The New Woman in Nowhere: Feminism and Utopianism at the Fin de Siecle; M.Beaumont The Next Generation: Stella Browne, the New Woman as Freewoman; L.A.Hall Women in British Aestheticism and the Decadence; R.Gagnier Index

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NLS9780333990452
9780333990452
0333990455
The New Woman in Fiction and Fact: Fin-de-Siecle Feminisms by A. Richardson
A. Richardson
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2000-12-20
258
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