Protest and Reform The British Social Narrative by Women, 1827-1867

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Green cloth boards tight and straight, inner pages crisp and clean. Dust jacket lightly rubbed, light edgewear to extremities. ; 8.60 X 5.80 X 0.80 inches. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 44589

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Inhaltsangabe: Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap. ; 242 pages; Description: x, 242 p. ; 23 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 217-231. Subjects: English fiction --19th century --History and criticism. Women and literature --Great Britain --History --19th century.

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The social novel in nineteenth-century Britain has been considered the effort of a predominantly male canon of writers. In this ground-breaking study, Joseph Kestner challenges that assumption, arguing that it was a succession of female writers—women often meriting only a footnote in literary history—who initiated and advanced the tradition using narrative fiction to register protest, expose abuses, and promote reform.
Kestner explores the contributions to Victorian social policy by the fiction of these neglected authors (Hannah More, Elizabeth Stone, Frances Trollope, Charlotte Tonna, Camilla Toulmin, Geraldine Jewsbury, Fanny Mayne, Julia Kavanagh, Dinah Mulock Craik) as well as of more prominent female authors (Maria Edgeworth, Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot) and male writers (Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, G. M. W. Reynolds, John Galt, Charles Kingsley).

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Protest and Reform The British Social ...
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1985
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good
Auflage: First.