The Victorian spinster and emerging female identities
Subtitle: a critical study of fin de siècle literature and culture
By: Carrie Wadman ; with a foreword by Lisa Hager
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lewiston, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781495502972
Subjects: English literature; History and criticism; Single women in literature; Sex role in literature; Single women; History; Sex role; Women; Social conditions; Feminism
Description: "Examines the spinster in British literary culture and contributes to the study of the New Woman and literary representations of women in general" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Victorian spinster; title: Scholarship and methodology; title: Primary material; title: Chapter overview; title: The new spinster; title: George Gissing's The odd women; title: Back to the future: debating young women; title: The new woman gets married; title: The academic uterus; title: Liberal theory and the establishment of women's colleges; title: Feminine nature and science; title: Fiction and the education dilemma; title: Reproductive futurism and the spinster scapegoat; title: Futures and foreclosures; title: Queer juxtaposition and the perils of single life; title: Theorizing female-female desire; title: Historical records and pre-sexological sexualities; title: Sexology, masculine female inverts and the new femininity of spinsters; title: "Something too vague to name yet too real to ignore": the rebel of the family; title: "A traveler in skirts": the spinster explorer; title: Narrative, the RGS and the explorer; title: Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan; title: The spinster and the imperial archive; title: Home and away: the limits of the spinster figure; title: Afterword.