The New Woman in Fiction and Fact
Subtitle: Fin de Siecle Feminisms
Contributors: Angelique Richardson (Editor); Chris Willis (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780333990452
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Women's studies; c 1800 to c 1900; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Europe; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; European - General; Feminist; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; General; 19th century; English fiction; Feminism and literature; Great Britain; History; History and criticism; Women and literature
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.