The Victorian Heroine
Author: Patricia Thomson
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1978-09-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0837171180
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Author: Patricia Thomson
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1978-09-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0837171180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cheryl A. Wilson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-09-05
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 3319629654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book uses the figure of the Victorian heroine as a lens through which to examine Jane Austen’s presence in Victorian critical and popular writings. Aimed at Victorianist readers and scholars, the book focuses on the ways in which Austen was constructed in fiction, criticism, and biography over the course of the nineteenth century. For the Victorians, Austen became a kind of cultural shorthand, representing a distant, yet not too-distant, historical past that the Victorians both drew on and defined themselves against with regard to such topics as gender, literature, and national identity. Austen influenced the development of the Victorian literary heroine, and when cast as a heroine herself, was deployed in debates about the responsibilities of the novelist and the ability of fiction to shape social and cultural norms. Thus, the study is as much, if not more, about the Victorians than it is about Jane Austen.
Author: Kimberley Reynolds
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1993-11-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780814773628
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKimberley Reynolds and Nicola Humble here provide a radical revision of Victorian constructions of femininity. Using a wide range of textual examples (including children's literature, sensations fiction, diaries, and autobiography) as well as visual illustrations, Victorian Heroines offers a new look at the representation of women and sexuality in nineteenth-century literature and painting. Arguing against the conventional dyadic model that interprets Victorian fiction in terms of a rigid distinction between the good and bad, the sexual and asexual woman, the authors suggest a more complex paradigm, simultaneously concealing and revealing contradictory attitudes to Victorian womanhood. The book explores the highly erotic fantasy elements frequently found in widely disseminated orthodox female images, and effectively demonstrates how both male and female writers used similar techniques to subvert this orthodoxy. Drawing on contemporary critical and cultural theories, Victorian Heroines is a lucid and accessible analysis of the depiction of women during this period, challenging the prevalent views of recent decades.
Author: Patricia Lee Nichol
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 77
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Published: 1815
Total Pages: 724
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patricia Thomson
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1978-09-13
Total Pages: 192
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 178
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Karen Ann Butery
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 452
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patricia Thomson
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 178
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hugh Cunningham
Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
Published: 2007-08-23
Total Pages: 234
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe extraordinary story of how and why Grace Darling became a major celebrity and what has happened to her fame in the years since her tragic early death in 1842