Chastity and Transgression in Women's Writing, 1792-1897

Interrupting the Harlot's Progress

R. Eberle (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

276 Seiten

2002 | 1st ed. 2002
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-42815-1 (ISBN)

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Working at the intersections of feminist literary criticism, new historicism, and narratology, Chastity and Transgression in Women's Writing revises current understandings of nineteenth-century representations of prostitution, female sexuality and the 'rights of woman' debate. Eberle's project explores the connections and disjunctures between women writing during the Romantic period and those working throughout the Victorian era. She considers a wide range of authors including Mary Wollstonecraft, Amelia Opie, Mary Hays, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Sarah Grand.

ROXANNE EBERLE is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia.

Introduction: Interrupting the Harlot's Progress Imagining the Sexualized Heroine: Mary Wollstonecraft, the Feminist Treatise, and The Wrongs of Woman A 'Legion of Wollstonecrafts' 'To Think, To Decide, and to Act': Radical Fictions of Transgressions and Vindication Diverting the Libertine Gaze: Amelia Opie's Adeline Mowbray Victorian Reclamations: Elizabeth Gaskell's Protective Fictions in Mary Barton and Ruth Rewriting the 'Vile Text': Christina Rossetti and the Poetics of Social Reform Reaping the Fruits of Resistance: Josephine Butler and Sarah Grand Writing the New Wollstonecraft Endnotes Works Cited Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	X, 276 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	female sex • Fiction • Romanticism • Victorian Era • Women
ISBN-10	1-349-42815-9 / 1349428159
ISBN-13	978-1-349-42815-1 / 9781349428151
Zustand	Neuware