The "improper" feminine : the women's sensation novel and the new woman writing / Lyn Pykett.
The first comparative study of the women's sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s, two genres which undermined the ideal of the `proper feminine' and dangerously put female sexuality on the literary agenda.
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1992.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. The 'improper' feminine
- pt. 2. The sentimental and sensational sixties : the limits of the proper feminine
- pt. 3. Breaking the bounds : the improper feminine and the fiction of the new woman.