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.
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