Overview
- Analyses developments in women’s writing across the 1880s and 1890s, including both canonical and lesser-known authors
- Explores fin de siècle ambivalence about the cultural construction of gender in women’s fiction from this period
- Interrogates the term ‘New Woman,’ revealing female literary experimentation in both form and subject matter
Part of the book series: British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940 (BWWFBB, volume 3)
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Keywords
- Victorian Literature
- Women's writing
- Female authorship
- Women's fiction
- Fin de siècle
- Modernism
- New Woman
About this book
This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840–1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women’s fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessing both canonical and lesser-known British women’s writing decade by decade, it redefines the landscape of women’s authorship across a century of dynamic social and cultural change. With each of its volumes devoted to two decades, the series is wide in scope but historically sharply defined.
Volume 3: 1880s and 1890s analyses confluences and developments in women’s writing across two fin-de-siècle decades. Its 16 original essays reconsider fiction by canonical and lesser-known women writers, redefining the landscape of female authorship during these decades. By exploring women’s fiction within the social and cultural contexts of the 1880s and 1890s, the collection distils in terms of women’s writing how these decades discretely build on earlier work that is identifiably Victorian. The last two decades of the century, in distinctive ways, witnessed literary experiment, reflection on the limits of realism, and a fruitful sense of confusion about what was ending and what was about to begin.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Adrienne E. Gavin is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Co-founder and Honorary Director of the International Centre for Victorian Woman Writers (ICVWW), Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She also teaches at Massey University, New Zealand.
Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton is Professor of Victorian Literature and Co-founder and Director of the International Centre for Victorian Women Writers (ICVWW) at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 3
Book Subtitle: 1880s and 1890s
Editors: Adrienne E. Gavin, Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
Series Title: British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-57287-6Due: 04 August 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-57290-6Due: 04 August 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-57288-3Due: 04 August 2024
Series ISSN: 2523-7160
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7179
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 258
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations