British Women Writers and the Short Story, 1850-1930 [electronic resource] : Reclaiming Social Space /
Krueger, K.author.
This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gender and social space. Their innovative short stories ask Britons to reconsider where women could live, how they could be identified, and whether they could be contained.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Feminine Occupations; 1 Spinsters Re-Drawing Rooms in Gaskell''s Cranford; Hosting crises in the drawing room; Telling secrets by the fireside; Economic parlor games; Conclusion; 2 Braddon, Broughton, and Specters of Social Critique; Haunting the country house; Borrowing trouble in the rented townhome; Conclusion; 3 Possessing London: The Yellow Book''s Women Writers; The Yellow Book''s brief innovations; Narrating impressions in the fin de siècle; Repulsing slum sisters; Conveying femininity; Conclusion
4 Baynton and Mansfield''s Unsettling WomenPlacing colonial modernism; Barbara Baynton''s pregnant silences; Katherine Mansfield''s colonial Rhythm; Conclusion; Conclusion: Woolf, Rhys, and Narratives of Obscurity; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gender and social space. Their innovative short stories ask Britons to reconsider where women could live, how they could be identified, and whether they could be contained.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Sociology.
British literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Fiction.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Gender Studies.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Fiction.