The New Woman in Fiction and Fact: Fin-de-siecle Feminisms Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The New Woman in Fiction and Fact: Fin-de-siecle Feminisms Book

A cultural icon of the fin de siècle, the New Woman was not one figure, but several. In the guise of a bicycling, cigarette-smoking Amazon, the New Woman romped through the pages of Punch and popular fiction; as a neurasthenic victim of social oppression, she suffered in the pages of New Woman novels such as Sarah Grand's hugely successful The Heavenly Twins. The New Woman in Fiction and Fact marks a radically new departure in 19th century scholarship to explore the polyvocal nature of the late Victorian debates around gender, motherhood, class, race and imperialism which converged in the name of the New Woman.Read More

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  • 0333990455
  • 9780333990452
  • Angelique Richardson, Chris Willis
  • 15 July 2002
  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 280
  • New Ed
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