Yesterday's Woman (eBook)

Domestic Realism in the English Novel

Vineta Colby (Autor)

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2015
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7265-7 (ISBN)

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Encouraged by the response of the avid novel-reading public in early nineteenth-century England, minor novelists produced a staggering number of volumes that shaped styles, formed attitudes, and gave to the novel a new status and respectability. These novels were read by both sexes, but the majority were written by women. Vineta Colby examines the works of such minor novelists as Mrs. Gore, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Yonge, and Harriet Martincau, arguing that they prepared the way for the novels of the great Victorian era.Antiromantic and bourgeois in spirit, these domestic novels were concerned with daily living in ordinary society. As the form developed, the novels turned away from "idle romance" to a serious treatment of basic questions of human and social values. Professor Colby demonstrates how the preoccupation with high society, childhood, and village life laid the thematic foundations for the more sophisticated works of the later Victorians. The author concludes by showing that the disruption of the family unit by technology, urbanization, and scientific materialism led the domestic novel into the realms of literary naturalism and social realism.Originally published in 1974.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Anna Laetitia Barbauld • Anti-romance • A Simple Story (novel) • Austen • Autobiography • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman • Ayenbite of Inwyt • Becky Sharp (character) • Bildungsroman • brother and sister • Catherine Gore • Charlotte Brontë • Charlotte Lennox • Charlotte Mary Yonge • cheap repository tracts • Clarissa • David Copperfield • Disenchantment • domestic realism • Domestic tragedy • Elizabeth Bennet • Elizabeth Gaskell • E. M. Forster • Emily Davies • Emma (novel) • English novel • erudition • Estella (Great Expectations) • Evelina • Fairy tale • Fanny Price • Fashionable novel • female education • Fiction • Genre • George Borrow • George Eliot • Gertrude (Hamlet) • G. (novel) • governess • Hannah More • Harriet Martineau • Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights) • His Family • I Wish (manhwa) • Jane Austen • Jane Eyre • Joseph Priestley • Lady Charlotte Bury • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu • Lavengro • Literature • Lord Byron • Mansfield Park • Maria Edgeworth • Mario Praz • Mary Russell Mitford • Melodrama • Memoir • miss bates • miss havisham • Moll Flanders • Mr. Darcy • Mrs. • Northanger Abbey • Novel • novelist • of education • pendennis • Poetry • Potboiler • Practical Education • pricking • Pride and Prejudice • Robert Plumer Ward • romantic hero • Romanticism • Sarah Stickney Ellis • Sarah Trimmer • Satire • Secrecy (book) • sensibility • sentimentality • spinster • Spiritual autobiography • Superiority (short story) • The Angel in the House • The Female Quixote • The Governess • The Heir of Redclyffe • The History of Sandford and Merton • Theodore Hook • The Vicar of Wakefield • Vanity Fair (novel) • Victorian Literature • Villette (novel) • Vivian Grey • Weltschmerz • William Cobbett • young widow
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7265-0 / 1400872650
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7265-7 / 9781400872657