‘Smothered under rose-leaves’: Violent sensation and the location of the feminine in Eliza Lynn Linton’s sowing the wind'

Carolyn Oulton

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-38528-6_7

‘Smothered under rose-leaves’: Violent sensation and the location of the feminine in Eliza Lynn Linton’s sowing the wind'

Carolyn Oulton

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The novelist and journalist Eliza Lynn Linton is best remembered for her virulently antifeminist articles on ‘The Girl of the Period,’ first published in the Saturday Review in the early 1860s. Yet like other women authors of the decade, she was alert to the new challenges posed by sensation fiction. Sowing the Wind (1867) adapts the sensational mode in unsettling ways, using it to test traditional gender roles in the context of betrayal and marital breakdown.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940
Subtitle of host publication	Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s
Editors	Adrienne E. Gavin, Carolyn W. de la Oulton
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030385286
ISBN (Print)	9783030385309, 9783030385279
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38528-6_7
Publication status	Published - 2020

Keywords

Antifeminism
Victorian women writers
Victorian literature
Sensation fiction

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Oulton, C. (2020). ‘Smothered under rose-leaves’: Violent sensation and the location of the feminine in Eliza Lynn Linton’s sowing the wind'. In A. E. Gavin, & C. W. D. L. Oulton (Eds.), British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940: Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38528-6_7

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‘Smothered under rose-leaves’: Violent sensation and the location of the feminine in Eliza Lynn Linton’s sowing the wind'. / Oulton, Carolyn.
British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940: Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s. ed. / Adrienne E. Gavin; Carolyn W. de la Oulton. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2020.

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