TY - BOOK
T1 - British women’s writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940. Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s
A2 - Oulton, Carolyn
A2 - Gavin, Adrienne
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s continues the series by historically and culturally contextualizing Victorian women’s writing distinctly within the 1860s and 1870s. Covering a range of fictional approaches, including short stories, religiously inflected novels, and comic writing the volume’s 16 original essays consider such developments as the sensation craze, the impact of new technologies, and the career opportunities opening for women. Centrally, it reassesses key nineteenth-century female authors inthe context in which they first published while also recovering neglected women writers who helped to shape the literary landscape of the 1860s and 1870s.
AB - Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s continues the series by historically and culturally contextualizing Victorian women’s writing distinctly within the 1860s and 1870s. Covering a range of fictional approaches, including short stories, religiously inflected novels, and comic writing the volume’s 16 original essays consider such developments as the sensation craze, the impact of new technologies, and the career opportunities opening for women. Centrally, it reassesses key nineteenth-century female authors inthe context in which they first published while also recovering neglected women writers who helped to shape the literary landscape of the 1860s and 1870s.
KW - Victorian literature
KW - Women's writing
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-38528-6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-38528-6
M3 - Book
SN - 9783030385279
SN - 9783030385309
T3 - British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840–1940
BT - British women’s writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940. Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
ER -