Odd women? : spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s-1930s / Emma Liggins.
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Liggins, Emma (författare)
- ISBN 9780719087561
- Publicerad: Manchester ; Manchester University Press, 2014
- Engelska viii, 275 pages
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Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- Female redundancy, widowhood and the mid-Victorian heroine -- Bachelor girls, mistresses and the New Woman heroine -- Spinster heroines, aunts and widowed mothers, 1910-39 -- The misfit lesbian heroine of inter-war fiction -- Professional spinsters, older women and widowed heroines in the 1930s.
- This genealogy of the odd woman compares representations of spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women fiction and auto biography from the 1850s to the 1930s. Women outside heterosexual marriage in this period were seen as abnormal, superfluous, incomplete and threatening, yet were also hailed as women of the future. Before 1850 odd women were marginalised, minor characters in British women fiction, yet by the 1930s spinsters, lesbians and widows had become heroines. This book examines how women writers, including Charlotte Brontë, Elisabeth Gaskell, Ella Hepworth Dixon, May Sinclair, E.H. young, Radclyffe Hall, Winifred Holtby and Virginia Woolf, challenged dominant perceptions of singleness and lesbianism in their novels, stories and autobiographies.
Ämnesord
- Lesbiska kvinnor i litteraturen (sao)
- Änkor i litteraturen (sao)
- Ensamstående kvinnor i litteraturen (sao)
- Women in literature. (LCSH)
- Single women in literature. (LCSH)
- Widows in literature. (LCSH)
- Lesbians in literature. (LCSH)
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- Litteraturvetenskap (kao)
- Ogifta kvinnor (kao)
- Lesbianism (kao)
- Änkor (kao)
- Literary studies (kao//eng)
- Unmarried women (kao//eng)
- Lesbianism (kao//eng)
- Widows (kao//eng)
- English fiction. (fast)
- Lesbians in literature. (fast)
- Single women in literature. (fast)
- Widows in literature. (fast)
- Women in literature. (fast)
- Englisch. (gnd)
- Frauenliteratur. (gnd)
- Ledige Frau (Motiv) (gnd)
- Lesbierin (Motiv) (gnd)
- Witwe (Motiv) (gnd)
- Englisch (gnd)
- Frauenliteratur (gnd)
- Ledige Frau (gnd)
- Lesbe (gnd)
- Witwe (gnd)
- Zeithintergrund (gnd)
- Engelska romaner -- historia (sao)
- Kvinnobilden -- romaner -- Storbritannien -- 1800-talet -- 1900-talet (kao)
- Image of women -- novels -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- 20th century (kao//eng)
- English fiction -- Women authors. (fast)
- Lesbians in literature (LCSH)
- 1800-talet (sao)
- 1900-talet (sao)
- 1800-1999 (fast)
- Geschichte 1850-1940.
Genre
- Criticism, interpretation, etc. (fast)
Klassifikation
- PR878.W6 (LCC)
- 820.9928709034 (DDC)
- 810/820 (DDC)
- HG 431 (rvk)
- HL 2045 (rvk)
- HL 2865 (rvk)
- HM 4815 (rvk)
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