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Author:

King, Jeannette.

Title:

The Victorian woman question in contemporary feminist fiction / Jeannette King.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

ix, 210 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Feminist fiction, English--History and criticism.
Historical fiction, English--History and criticism.
English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Feminism and literature--English-speaking countries--History--20th century.
Women and literature--English-speaking countries--History--20th century.
Women--Great Britain--Historiography.--19th century--Historiography.
Feminism in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Women in literature.
Vrouwenemancipatie.
Feminisme.
Victoriaanse tijd.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-205) and index.

Contents:

1. What is a woman? Victorian constructions of femininity. Religious prescriptions and cultural reflections ; The biological sciences ; An unhealthy mind in an unhealthy body? ; Evolutionary theory and the social sciences ; Entering the gender debate. -- 2. The Darwinian moment: the woman that never evolved. Separate species and separate spheres: Andrea Barrett, The voyage of the Narwhal, 1855-1856 ; Darwin and romantic love: A.S. Byatt, Morpho Eugenia. -- 3. "Criminals, idiots, women and minors': deviant minds in deviant bodies. Madwoman or bad woman? Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace ; Criminal influence: Sarah Waters, Affinity. -- 4. Subversive spirits: spiritualism and female desire. 'Power words': Victoria Glendinning, Electricity ; Gender and poetry: A.S. Byatt, The conjugial angel ; Spiritualism, psychology and history: Michèle Roberts, In the red kitchen. -- 5. Degeneration and sexual anarchy. The newly born woman: Angela Carter, Nights at the circus ; Performing gender: Sarah Waters, Tipping the velvet. -- 6. Evolutionary thought, gender and race. 'Ain't I a woman?: Toni Morrison's Beloved.

ISBN:

9781403917270 (cloth)
1403917272 (cloth)

LCCN:

2004061222

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)