Victorian women's fiction
Subtitle: marriage, freedom, and the individual
By: Shirley Foster.
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780389205517
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Women in literature; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism; Social psychology in literature; Marriage in literature; Liberty in literature
Notes: Bibliography: p. 226-235.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introductory : women and marriage in mid-nineteenth century England; title: Dinah Mulock Craik : ambivalent romanticism; title: Charlotte Bronte : a vision of duality; title: Elizabeth Sewell : the triumph of singleness; title: Elizabeth Gaskell : the wife's view; title: George Eliot : conservative unorthodoxy