Title: Victorian women's fiction
First published: 1985
Description: Critical interest in women's fiction has grown enormously in recent years, in particular focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinized contemporary assumptions about their own sex. Victorian Women's Fiction: Marriage, Freedom and the Individual develops this area of exploration, showing how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and the often more attractive alternative of single or professional life. In arguing that the tensions and dualities of their work represent the honest confrontation of their own ambivalence rather than attempted conformity to convention, it calls for a fresh look at patterns of imaginative representation in Victorian women's literature. - Jacket flap.
Subjects: English Psychological fiction, English fiction, History, History and criticism, Liberty in literature, Marriage in literature, Psychological fiction, English, Social psychology in literature, Women and literature, Women authors, Women in literature, Romans, Ecrits de femmes anglais, Huwelijk, Histoire et critique, Roman anglais, Engels, Femmes dans la litterature, Mariage dans la litterature, Schriftstellerin, Frau (Motiv), Roman, Biographie, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, English fiction, women authors, Femmes dans la littérature, Femmes et littérature, Histoire, Psychologie sociale dans la littérature, Mariage dans la littérature, Liberté dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 19th century