The New Woman in Fiction and Fact: Fin-De-Siècle Feminisms

By: Richardson, Angelique

Book Overview

A cultural icon of the fin de si cle, the New Woman was not one figure, but several. In the guise of a bicycling, cigarette-smoking Amazon, the New Woman romped through the pages of Punch and popular fiction; as a neurasthenic victim of social oppression, she suffered in the pages of New Woman novels such as Sarah Grand's hugely successful The Heavenly Twins . The New Woman in Fiction and Fact marks a radically new departure in nineteenth-century scholarship to explore the polyvocal nature of the late Victorian debates around gender, motherhood, class, race and imperialism which converged in the name of the New Woman.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333990455
• ISBN13: 9780333990452
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.5"