Odd women? Spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850 - 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...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Manchester u.a.
Manchester Univ. Press
2014
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 Bronte͏̈, 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | VIII, 275 S. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0719087562 0-7190-8756-2 9780719087561 978-0-7190-8756-1 |