New Woman Fiction: Women Writing First-Wave Feminism by A. Heilmann (English) Ha

Description: New Woman Fiction by A. Heilmann This informative monograph offers an interdisciplinary approach to the growing field of New Woman studies by exploring the relationship between first-wave feminist literature, the nineteenth-century womens movement and female consumer culture. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The New Woman was the symbol of the shifting categories of gender and sexuality and epitomised the spirit of the fin de siècle . This informative monograph offers an interdisciplinary approach to the growing field of New Woman studies by exploring the relationship between first-wave feminist literature, the nineteenth-century womens movement and female consumer culture. The book expertly places the debate about femininity, feminism and fiction in its cultural and socio-historical context, examining New Woman fiction as a genre whose emerging theoretical discourse prefigured concepts central to second-wave feminist theory. Author Biography ANN HEILMANN is Lecturer in English at the University of Wales Swansea. She has edited an anthology on The Late-Victorian Marriage Question: A Collection of Key New Woman Texts (1998). Table of Contents List of Illustrations Abbreviations Regen(d)eration Contesting/Consuming Femininities Keynotes and Discords Marriage and Its Discontents The Crisis of Gender and Sexuality The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman Departures Review Ann Heilmanns New Woman Fiction: Women Writing Feminism synthesies recent debates on the New Woman fiction, and makes its own distinctivecontribution to the growing body of work on this fin de siecle phenomenon. It discusses a wider range of writers and texts than earlier studies of this body of writing, and locates both the writers and texts more clearly and more firmly in the context of late nineteenth feminism than have earlier studies. It also seeks to draw parallels between this first wave of feminism and the second wave feminism of the latter part of the twentieth century. This has the effect of simultaneously broadening and narrowing the corpus of New Woman writing: more texts are put on display, but New Woman writers are more specifically (and perhaps more narrowly) defined as committed feminists with a vision of social regeneration through didactic literature [through which] they sought to reach and politicize a mass readership. This lucid study offers anhistoricallygrounded and theoretically informed introduction to an important aspect of the history of womens writing. - Lyn Pykett, Professor of English, University of Wales, Aberystwyth Review Quote Ann Heilmanns New Woman Fiction: Women Writing Feminism synthesies recent debates on the New Woman fiction, and makes its own distinctive contribution to the growing body of work on this fin de siecle phenomenon. It discusses a wider range of writers and texts than earlier studies of this body of writing, and locates both the writers and texts more clearly and more firmly in the context of late nineteenth feminism than have earlier studies. It also seeks to draw parallels between this first wave of feminism and the second wave feminism of the latter part of the twentieth century. This has the effect of simultaneously broadening and narrowing the corpus of New Woman writing: more texts are put on display, but New Woman writers are more specifically (and perhaps more narrowly) defined as committed feminists with a vision of social regeneration through didactic literature [through which] they sought to reach and politicize a mass readership. This lucid study offers an historically grounded and theoretically informed introduction to an important aspect of the history of womens writing. - Lyn Pykett, Professor of English, University of Wales, Aberystwyth Details ISBN0333794168 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Year 2000 ISBN-10 0333794168 ISBN-13 9780333794166 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2000-08-09 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.8099287 Media Book Place of Publication Basingstoke Short Title NEW WOMAN FICTION 2000/E Edition Description 2000 Language English Pages 221 Subtitle Women Writing First-Wave Feminism AU Release Date 2000-08-09 NZ Release Date 2000-08-09 UK Release Date 2000-08-09 Author A. Heilmann Illustrations XVIII, 221 p. Alternative 9781349420100 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:99141574;

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