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Author Pykett, Lyn.

Title The "improper" feminine : the women's sensation novel and the new woman writing / Lyn Pykett.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 235 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index.
Contents pt. 1. The 'improper' feminine -- pt. 2. The sentimental and sensational sixties : the limits of the proper feminine -- pt. 3. Breaking the bounds : the improper feminine and the fiction of the new woman.
Summary The first comparative study of the women's sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s, two genres which undermined the ideal of the `proper feminine' and dangerously put female sexuality on the literary agenda.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- Women authors.
Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Feminism and literature.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Women and literature.
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
Feminist fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Feminist fiction, English.
Fiction -- Authorship -- Sex differences.
Fiction -- Authorship -- Sex differences.
Fiction -- Authorship.
Women's rights in literature.
Women's rights in literature.
Sensationalism in literature.
Sensationalism in literature.
Femininity in literature.
Femininity in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Sex in literature.
Sex in literature.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Indexed Term English fiction Special subjects Women
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Pykett, Lyn. "Improper" feminine. London ; New York : Routledge, 1992 (DLC) 91043624
ISBN 0203359208 (electronic book)
9780203359204 (electronic book)
9780415049283
0415049288
0415049288 (Cloth)
041586206X
9780415862066
1134944837
9781134944835
1280071877
9781280071874