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Title

The Cambridge companion to Victorian women's writing / edited by Linda H. Peterson.

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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Additional Authors

Peterson, Linda H.

Description

xxi, 294 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing brings together chapters by leading scholars to provide innovative and comprehensive coverage of Victorian women writers' careers and literary achievements. While incorporating the scholarly insights of modern feminist criticism, it also reflects new approaches to women authors that have emerged with the rise of book history; periodical studies; performance studies; post-colonial studies; and scholarship on authorship, readership, and publishing. It traces the Victorian woman writer's career-from making her debut to working with publishers and editors to achieving literary fame-and challenges previous thinking about genres in which women contributed with success. Chapters on poetry, including a discussion of poetry in colonial and imperial contexts, reveal women's engagements with each other and male writers. Discussions on drama, life-writing, reviewing, history, travel writing, and children's literature uncover the remarkable achievement of women in fields relatively unknown"--

Series Statement

Cambridge companions to literature

Uniform Title

Cambridge companions to literature.

Alternative Title

Victorian women's writing

Subject

• English literature > Women authors > History and criticism
• Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• Publishers and publishing > Great Britain > History > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 15-7299

ISBN

• 9781107659612
• 1107659612
• 9781107064843
• 1107064848

LCCN

2015011595

OCLC

908554173

Title

The Cambridge companion to Victorian women's writing / edited by Linda H. Peterson.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge companions to literature

Cambridge companions to literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Peterson, Linda H., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-7299