The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction
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The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction

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The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction

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The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction explores the representation of Victorian womanhood in the work of some of today's most important British and North American novelists including A.S. Byatt, Sarah Waters, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter and Toni Morrison. By analysing these novels in the context of the scientific, religious and literary discourses that shaped Victorian ideas about gender, it contributes to an important inter-disciplinary debate. For while showing the power of these discourses to shape women's roles, the novels also suggest how individual women might challenge that power through their own lives.

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Year
2005
ISBN
9780230503571

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. 1 What is a Woman? Victorian Constructions of Femininity
  6. 2 The Darwinian Moment: The Woman that Never Evolved
  7. 3 'Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors': Deviant Minds in Deviant Bodies
  8. 4 Subversive Spirits: Spiritualism and Female Desire
  9. 5 Degeneration and Sexual Anarchy
  10. 6 Evolutionary Thought, Gender and Race
  11. Afterword
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index