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Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature
This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyzes power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This volume is the first to reshape Victorian studies from the perspective of the postmodern return to history, and is variously influenced by Marxism, sociology,...
To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature
Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women’s fiction shows how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of...
To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature
An annotated bibliography on women who wrote fiction in the US during the period 1790-1870. The first part is an annotated list of sources that discuss women's fiction in the period and women authors born before 1840 who published before 1870. The second part is an alphabetical list of the...
To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature
Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the twentieth century, "men of letters" acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most critically successful novelists were men. In the book, sociologist...
To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
Long overshadowed by her more widely read and reprinted son Anthony, Frances Trollope is almost exclusively remembered for her travel writing and especially for the notoriously controversial Domestic Manners of the Americans. Her impressively prolific career as a writer, however, covered and...
To Be Published July 31st 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Revivals
First published in 1981, this book explores the reactions of some female writers to the social effects of industrial capitalism between 1778 and 1860. Judith Newton analyses novels such as Fanny Burney’s Evelina, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, in order to...
To Be Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
First published in 1972, Norman Page’s seminal study of The Language of Jane Austen seeks to demonstrate both the exceptional nature and the degree of subtlety of Jane Austen’s use of language. As well as examining the staple items of her vocabulary and some of the characteristic patterns of her...
To Be Published October 29th 2012 by Routledge
First published in 1979, this is a very welcome reissue of Kathleen Raine's seminal study of William Blake - England’s only prophet. He challenged with extraordinary vigour the premises which now underline much of Western civilization, hitting hard at the ideas of a naive materialist...
To Be Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
First published in 1977, this concise and insightful study of the life and works of Thomas Hardy provides a thorough examination of Hardy's literary output. Alongside a brief biography of Hardy's life, Professor Page's study also spotlights his major and minor novels, his short stories, his...
To Be Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
Students new to the work of William Morris will find the full range of his achievements covered in this reissue of Peter Faulkner's excellent biography, first published in 1980. The author has carefully placed Morris in the context of the Victorian age, but has also suggested the relevance of his...
To Be Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
