History of British Women's Writing, 1830-1880

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The work History of British Women's Writing, 1830-1880 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

History of British Women's Writing, 1830-1880

Statement of responsibility

HARTLEY

Creator

• HARTLEY

Contributor

• Doyle

Subject

• British literature
• British literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Fiction
• Fiction
• Literature
• Literature -- History and criticism
• Literature, Modern
• Literature, Modern -- 19th century
• Sociology
• Sociology
• 1800-1899

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period immediately before and during the reign of Queen Victoria. It demonstrates how, between 1830 and 1880, the woman writer became an agent of cultural formation and contestation, appealing to and enabling the growth of female readership while issuing a challenge to the authority of male writers and critics. Of especial importance were changing definitions of marriage, family and nation, of class, and of morality as well as new conceptions of sexuality and gender, and of sympathy and sensation. The result is a richly textured account of a radical and complex process of feminization whereby formal innovations in the different modes of writing by women became central to the aesthetic, social, and political formation of British culture and society in the nineteenth century

Member of

• History of British Women's Writing

Cataloging source

COO

Dewey number

809.034

Index

no index present

LC call number

PN760.5-PN769

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

History of British Women's Writing