The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing

Author: Linda H. Peterson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-10-15

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1107064848

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Innovative and comprehensive coverage of women writers' careers and literary achievements spanning many literary genres during the Victorian period.

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry

Author: Joseph Bristow

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-10-26

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780521646802

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This Companion to Victorian Poetry provides an introduction to many of the pressing issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. It introduces readers to a range of topics - including historicism, patriotism, prosody, and religious belief. The thirteen specially-commissioned chapters offer insights into the works of well-known figures such as Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and the writings of women poets - like Michael Field, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster - whose contribution to Victorian culture has in more recent years been acknowledged by modern scholars. Revealing the breadth of the Victorians' experiments with poetic form, this Companion also discloses the extent to which their writings addressed the prominent intellectual and social questions of the day. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology of the Victorian period and a comprehensive guide to further reading.

Women Rewriting Boundaries
Women Rewriting Boundaries

Author: Precious McKenzie Stearns

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2016-12-14

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1443858501

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Women Rewriting Boundaries expands the work of gender and literary scholars by offering fresh insights on how to read travel writing by women. It analyzes the connections between class, gender, physicality, and sexuality as found in nineteenth-century literature. The authors discuss the myriad ways in which women writers reinforced and challenged Victorian social norms. Inspired by a special topics panel, “Women Writing Boundaries,” presented at the 2013 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association’s annual convention, this edited collection will be a thought-provoking resource for college- level humanities and gender studies students and their instructors.

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food

Author: J. Michelle Coghlan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-03-19

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1108427367

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This Companion rethinks food in literature from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to contemporary food blogs, and recovers cookbooks as literary texts.

Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question
Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question

Author: Nicola Diane Thompson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-07

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0521641020

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This book was first published in 1999. This collection of essays by leading scholars from Britain, the USA and Canada opens up the limited landscape of Victorian novels by focusing attention on some of the women writers popular in their own time but forgotten or neglected by literary history. Spanning the entire Victorian period, this study investigates particularly the role and treatment of 'the woman question' in the second half of the century. There are discussions of marriage, matriarchy and divorce, satire, suffragette writing, writing for children, and links between literature and art. Moving from Margaret Oliphant and Charlotte Mary Yonge to Mary Ward, Marie Corelli, 'Ouida' and E. Nesbit, this book illuminates the complex cultural and literary roles, and the engaging contributions, of Victorian women writers.