The New Woman in Fiction and Fact
Subtitle: Fin-De-Siecle Feminisms
Contributors: Angelique Richardson (Editor); Chris Willis (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: June 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780333776650
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Women's studies; c 1800 to c 1900; 19th century; English fiction; Feminism and literature; Great Britain; History; History and criticism; Women and literature; English; 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.