British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s 1st Edition

British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030385279,9783030385286,3030385272,3030385280

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030385280
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9783030385286
• Author: Adrienne E. Gavin, Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton

Table contents:

1. Introduction

Part I

2. A Decade of Experiment: George Eliot in the 1860s

3. ‘Duck him!’: Private Feelings, Public Interests, and Ellen Wood’s East Lynne

4. ‘[Tr]ain[s] of circumstantial evidence’: Railway ‘Monomania’ and Investigations of Gender in Lady Audley’s Secret

5. ‘There is great need for forgiveness in this world’: The Call for Reconciliation in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers and A Dark Night’s Work

6. ‘The plain duties which are set before me’: Charity, Agency, and Women’s Work in the 1860s

7. ‘[S]mothered under rose-leaves’: Violent Sensation and the Location of the Feminine in Eliza Lynn Linton’s Sowing the Wind

8. ‘[F]leshly inclinations’: The Nature of Female Desire in Rhoda Broughton’s Early Fiction

9. Crumbs from the Table: Matilda Betham-Edwards’s Comic Writing in Punch

Part II

10. Transcending Prudence: Charlotte Riddell’s ‘City Women’

11. ‘[M]ute orations, mute rhapsodies, mute discussions’: Silence in George Eliot’s Last Decade

12. ‘His eyes commanded me to come to him’: Desire and Mesmerism in Rhoda Broughton’s ‘The Man with the Nose’

13. ‘[E]mphatically un-literary and middle-class’: Undressing Middle-Class Anxieties in Ellen Wood’s Johnny Ludlow Stories

14. ‘Sinecures which could be held by girls’: Margaret Oliphant and Women’s Labour

15. ‘More like a woman stuck into boy’s clothes’: Transcendent Femininity in Florence Marryat’s Her Father’s Name

16. ‘I am writing the life of a horse’: Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty in the 1870s

17. Forging a New Path: Fraud and White-Collar Crime in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s 1870s Fiction

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