The New Woman in Fiction and Fact
Subtitle: Fin de Siecle Feminisms
Contributors: Angelique Richardson (Editor); Chris Willis (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: March 21, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780312234904
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Feminism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Feminist Criticism; Women; Women Authors; 19th Century English Literature; Women In English Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 19th century; English fiction; Feminism and literature; Great Britain; History; History and criticism; Women and literature; Literary Criticism
First sentence: became a more strictly literary affair following the naming of the New Woman,' she explains (12). Critics turned from excoriating real women to condemning characters in novels.