Victorian women's fiction

By Shirley Foster

Subjects: Histoire, Liberty in literature, Engels, English Psychological fiction, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, History, Romans, English fiction, women authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, Social psychology in literature, Women in literature, LITERARY CRITICISM, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Femmes et littérature, Schriftstellerin, Women authors, Women and literature, Roman, Mariage dans la littérature, Mariage dans la litterature, Roman anglais, Huwelijk, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, History and criticism, Histoire et critique, Femmes dans la littérature, English fiction, Marriage in literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Biographie, Frau (Motiv), European, Ecrits de femmes anglais, Liberté dans la littérature, Psychological fiction, English, Femmes dans la litterature, Psychologie sociale dans la littérature

Description: Critical interest in women's fiction has grown enormously in recent years, in particular focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinized contemporary assumptions about their own sex. Victorian Women's Fiction: Marriage, Freedom and the Individual develops this area of exploration, showing how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and the often more attractive alternative of single or professional life. In arguing that the tensions and dualities of their work represent the honest confrontation of their own ambivalence rather than attempted conformity to convention, it calls for a fresh look at patterns of imaginative representation in Victorian women's literature. - Jacket flap.