Telling tales
Subtitle: gender and narrative form in Victorian literature and culture
By: Elizabeth Langland.
Series: The theory and interpretation of narrative series
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Sex role in literature.; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Working class women in literature.; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-155) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mosaic, dialogue, discourse, theft, and mimicry : Charlotte Brontë rereads William Makepeace Thackeray; title: Dialogue and narrative transgressions in Anne Brontë's Tenant of Wildfell Hall; title: Becoming a man in Thomas Hardy's Jude the obscure; title: Gender geographies : the lady and the country house in Wilkie Collins's Woman in white and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's secret; title: Private space and public women : Victorian working-class narratives; title: Cultural capital and the gendering of values : Victorian women writers; title: Nation and nationality : Queen Victoria in the developing narrative of Englishness.