Gender and space in rural Britain, 1840-1920
By: edited by Gemma Goodman and Charlotte Mathieson
Series: Warwick series in the humanities -- no. 3; Warwick series in the humanities -- no. 3.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781315654355
Subjects: Sex role; Rural women in literature; Rôle selon le sexe; Femmes en milieu rural dans la littérature
Notes: Originally published 2014 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Women in the field / Roger Ebbatson; title: 2. 'Between two civilizations' : George Sturt's constructions of loss and change in village life / Barry Sloan; title: 3. At work and at play : Charles Lee's Cynthia in the West / Gemma Goodman; title: 4. 'Going out, going alone' : modern subjectivities in rural Scotland, 1900-21 / Samantha Walton; title: 5. 'Drowned lands' : Charles Kingsley's Hereward the wake and the masculation of the English fens / Lynsey McCulloch; title: 6. 'Wandering like a wild thing' : rurality, women and walking in George Eliot's Adam Bede and The mill on the floss / Charlotte Mathieson; title: 7. 'I never liked long walks' : gender, nature and Jane Eyre's rural wandering / Katherine F. Montgomery; title: 8. Gertrude Jekyll : cultivating the gendered space of the Victorian Garden for professional success / Christen Ericsson-Penfold; title: 9. From England to Eden : gardens, gender and knowledge in Virginia Woolf's The voyage out / Karina Jakubowicz; title: 10. The transnational rural in Alicia Little's My diary in a Chinese farm / Eliza S.K. Leong.