The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing

Herausgeber: Peterson, Linda H.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive, accessible and informative collection of essays exploring women writers of the Victorian period, focusing on their careers and the wide range of literary work they produced, from fiction, poetry and drama to reviewing, travel writing and children's literature. It also includes a chronology and guide to further reading.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781107659612
• ISBN-10: 1107659612
• Artikelnr.: 42803903

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Victorian women writers and modern literary criticism Linda H. Peterson
Part I. Victorian Women Writers' Careers: 1. Making a debut Alexis Easley
2. Becoming a professional writer Joanne Shattock
3. Working with publishers Linda H. Peterson
4. Assuming the role of editor Beth Palmer
5. Achieving fame and canonicity Alison Chapman
Part II. Victorian Women Writers' Achievements: Genres and Modes: 6. Poetry Linda K. Hughes
7. Silver-fork, industrial, and Gothic fiction Ella Dzelzainis
8. The Realist novel Deirdre d'Albertis
9. Sensation and New Woman fiction Lyn Pykett
10. Drama and theater Katherine Newey
11. Life writing Carol Hanberry Mackay
12. Travel writing Tamara S. Wagner
13. Colonial and imperial writing Mary Ellis Gibson and Jason R. Rudy
14. History writing Deborah A. Logan
15. Periodical writing Margaret Beetham
16. Reviewing Joanne Wilkes
17. Children's writing Claudia Nelson.