The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact

The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact Fin-De-Siècle Feminisms

2000

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Publisher's Synopsis

A cultural icon of the fin de siècle , the New Woman was not one figure, but several. In the guise of a bicycling, cigarette-smoking Amazon, the New Woman romped through the pages of Punch and popular fiction; as a neurasthenic victim of social oppression, she suffered in the pages of New Woman novels such as Sarah Grand's hugely successful The Heavenly Twins . The New Woman in Fiction and Fact marks a radically new departure in nineteenth-century scholarship to explore the polyvocal nature of the late Victorian debates around gender, motherhood, class, race and imperialism which converged in the name of the New Woman.

Book information

ISBN: 9780333990452
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 2000
DEWEY: 823.809352042
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 274
Weight: 360g
Height: 140mm
Width: 217mm
Spine width: 18mm