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Literature and Society in Victorian Britain


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Women's Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers

Women's Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers

1st Edition

Edited By Julie Melnyk
November 01, 2019

First published in 1998. This collection of original essays identifies and analyzes 19th-century women's theological thought in all its diversity, demonstrating the ways that women revised, subverted, or rejected elements of masculine theology in creating theologies of their own. While women's ...

Gender, Genre, and Victorian Historical Writing

Gender, Genre, and Victorian Historical Writing

1st Edition

By Rohan Amanda Maitzen
July 21, 2016

First published in 1999. and Middlemarch and of a range of nineteenth-century historical works, including works by and about women that are discussed extensively here for the first time. The blurring of boundaries between historical and fictional narratives, stimulated by the enormous success of...

Emigration and Empire The Life of Maria S. Rye

Emigration and Empire: The Life of Maria S. Rye

1st Edition

By Marion Diamond
January 29, 2016

Maria S. Rye, a woman motivated by both feminist and philanthropic ideals, devoted her life to the migration of women and girls out of England. This biography gives an account of Rye's activities from her early engagement with liberal feminism through her association with the Langham Place group in...

A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot Edith J. Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker

A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot: Edith J. Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker

1st Edition

Edited By Constance M. Fulmer, Margaret E. Barfield
December 01, 1997

The Autobiography is the personal journal of an independent Victorian woman who describes her day-to-day activities as a businesswoman, social reformer, scholar, and journalist; makes many insightful observations on gender issues; and provides intriguing details of her relationships with many of...

The Maternal Voice in Victorian Fiction Rewriting the Patriarchal Family

The Maternal Voice in Victorian Fiction: Rewriting the Patriarchal Family

1st Edition

By Barbara Z. Thaden
August 01, 1997

This is the first full-length study to focus specifically on representations of motherhood in fiction by such Victorian writers as Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, Caroline Norton, and Ellen Price Wood. These authors presented an idealized view of motherhood as part of a campaign to gain ...

Victorian Urban Settings Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and Its Contexts

Victorian Urban Settings: Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and Its Contexts

1st Edition

Edited By Debra N. Mancoff, D.J. Trela
July 01, 1996

This volume of 13 original interdisciplinary essays surveys the relationship of Victorian works and the urban experience that shaped them. Each essay addresses how the selection or rejection of an urban setting provide the context for a representative product of Victorian art or culture....

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