Daughters of decadence
Subtitle: women writers of the Fin-de-Siècle
By: edited and introduced by Elaine Showalter.
Contributors: Showalter, Elaine.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: American literature -- Women authors.; English literature -- Women authors.; American literature -- 19th century.; English literature -- 19th century.; Decadence (Literary movement); Women -- Literary collections.
Description: " At the turn of the century, short stories by--and often about--"New Women" flooded the pages English and American magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, and the Yellow Book. This daring new fiction, often innovative in form and courageous in its candid representations of female sexuality, marital discontent, and feminist protest, shocked Victorian critics, who denounced the authors as "literary degenerates" or "erotomaniacs." This collection brings together twenty of the most original and important stories from this period."--Back cover.