Helena Sanson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780197264836
- eISBN:
- 9780191754043
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264836.003.0004
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
This chapter discusses the complex linguistic situation of Italy in the eighteenth century, taking into account its broader implications as well as, specifically, women's relationship with spoken and ...
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This chapter discusses the complex linguistic situation of Italy in the eighteenth century, taking into account its broader implications as well as, specifically, women's relationship with spoken and written language. Throughout the century, Italian continued to be above all a written tool and still had to withstand competition from the dialects and from Latin, both in terms of writing and in the context of schooling. A new front of rivalry opened up with French, which, especially in the highest classes, occupied a privileged role at the expense of Italian, with women in particular often being attacked for indulging in its use. The debates on the education of women that enlivened the Settecento did not overlook the question of language: the Enlightenment re-evaluation of women's role in society, as educators and as citizens, explains the frequent pleas by educationalists and men of letters that the female sex should learn Italian. If, on the one hand, female periodicals and novels allowed women access to written Italian to an unprecedented degree, on the other a large number of female writers, journalists, and translators were able to offer their own direct contribution to language and the literary world.Less
This chapter discusses the complex linguistic situation of Italy in the eighteenth century, taking into account its broader implications as well as, specifically, women's relationship with spoken and written language. Throughout the century, Italian continued to be above all a written tool and still had to withstand competition from the dialects and from Latin, both in terms of writing and in the context of schooling. A new front of rivalry opened up with French, which, especially in the highest classes, occupied a privileged role at the expense of Italian, with women in particular often being attacked for indulging in its use. The debates on the education of women that enlivened the Settecento did not overlook the question of language: the Enlightenment re-evaluation of women's role in society, as educators and as citizens, explains the frequent pleas by educationalists and men of letters that the female sex should learn Italian. If, on the one hand, female periodicals and novels allowed women access to written Italian to an unprecedented degree, on the other a large number of female writers, journalists, and translators were able to offer their own direct contribution to language and the literary world.
Fiona Cox
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199582969
- eISBN:
- 9780191731198
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199582969.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
The history of Virgil and his receptions is long and varied. His 20th-century career transformed his appearance as an anaemic imitator of Homer into the ‘Father of the West’, speaking above all for ...
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The history of Virgil and his receptions is long and varied. His 20th-century career transformed his appearance as an anaemic imitator of Homer into the ‘Father of the West’, speaking above all for the marginalized and exiled. At the turn of the millennium it is women writers who, having been largely absent from the story of Virgil's reception, are for the first time shaping a new aetas Vergiliana by drawing on his poems to speak of their own preoccupations and concerns. Through an analysis of Virgil's presence in the work of contemporary women writers from North America (Joyce Carol Oates, Janet Lembke, Ursula Le Guin), Britain (Margaret Drabble, A. S. Byatt, Ruth Fainlight, Michèle Roberts, Carol Ann Duffy, U. A. Fanthorpe, Josephine Balmer), Ireland (Eavan Boland), and continental Europe (Christa Wolf, Hélène Cixous, Charlotte Delbo, and Monique Wittig), this book identifies a new Virgil: one who speaks in female tones of the anxieties, exclusions, pleasures, and threats of the contemporary world. While each of the female writers included in this volume draws upon her own distinct cultural heritage, the book focuses on a number of shared themes and values which emerge through their work.Less
The history of Virgil and his receptions is long and varied. His 20th-century career transformed his appearance as an anaemic imitator of Homer into the ‘Father of the West’, speaking above all for the marginalized and exiled. At the turn of the millennium it is women writers who, having been largely absent from the story of Virgil's reception, are for the first time shaping a new aetas Vergiliana by drawing on his poems to speak of their own preoccupations and concerns. Through an analysis of Virgil's presence in the work of contemporary women writers from North America (Joyce Carol Oates, Janet Lembke, Ursula Le Guin), Britain (Margaret Drabble, A. S. Byatt, Ruth Fainlight, Michèle Roberts, Carol Ann Duffy, U. A. Fanthorpe, Josephine Balmer), Ireland (Eavan Boland), and continental Europe (Christa Wolf, Hélène Cixous, Charlotte Delbo, and Monique Wittig), this book identifies a new Virgil: one who speaks in female tones of the anxieties, exclusions, pleasures, and threats of the contemporary world. While each of the female writers included in this volume draws upon her own distinct cultural heritage, the book focuses on a number of shared themes and values which emerge through their work.
Joan Judge
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520284364
- eISBN:
- 9780520959934
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520284364.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This book is an act of redemption. It retrieves a genre of text that has been banished to the margins of scholarly inquiry but that provides unparalleled access to the complexities of the past: the ...
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This book is an act of redemption. It retrieves a genre of text that has been banished to the margins of scholarly inquiry but that provides unparalleled access to the complexities of the past: the early Chinese commercial periodical press. Focusing on one particularly innovative example, Funü shibao (The Women’s Eastern Times), and on one of the most significant—and neglected—periods in modern Chinese history, the early Republic, it develops a methodology that both engages the full materiality of the medium and situates it within the arc of historical change. It offers a close reading of the journal’s cover art, photographs, advertisements, poetry, and discursive texts against one another, uncovering an unbounded space where text, image, and experience meet; where editors, artists, readers, and authors commune. Central to this shared space is the notion of “experience,” the meanings of which are refracted through the key tensions that underlie the journal: tensions between reform and commerce, everyday and epic agendas, male editorial strategies and female authorial tactics. Situating Funü shibao at the conjuncture of interrelated shifts in China’s knowledge, print, medical, commercial, and sexual cultures in the early twentieth century, the book further exposes productive aporias and messy hybrids that ideologically driven history has rendered invisible. It also recovers traces of the modes of reasoning, the look, and the stories of a cast of well-known, little known, and unknown historical actors, including a new demographic of Republican Ladies, all of whom were deeply engaged with the minutia and the monumentality of the twentieth century’s global transformations.Less
This book is an act of redemption. It retrieves a genre of text that has been banished to the margins of scholarly inquiry but that provides unparalleled access to the complexities of the past: the early Chinese commercial periodical press. Focusing on one particularly innovative example, Funü shibao (The Women’s Eastern Times), and on one of the most significant—and neglected—periods in modern Chinese history, the early Republic, it develops a methodology that both engages the full materiality of the medium and situates it within the arc of historical change. It offers a close reading of the journal’s cover art, photographs, advertisements, poetry, and discursive texts against one another, uncovering an unbounded space where text, image, and experience meet; where editors, artists, readers, and authors commune. Central to this shared space is the notion of “experience,” the meanings of which are refracted through the key tensions that underlie the journal: tensions between reform and commerce, everyday and epic agendas, male editorial strategies and female authorial tactics. Situating Funü shibao at the conjuncture of interrelated shifts in China’s knowledge, print, medical, commercial, and sexual cultures in the early twentieth century, the book further exposes productive aporias and messy hybrids that ideologically driven history has rendered invisible. It also recovers traces of the modes of reasoning, the look, and the stories of a cast of well-known, little known, and unknown historical actors, including a new demographic of Republican Ladies, all of whom were deeply engaged with the minutia and the monumentality of the twentieth century’s global transformations.
Julia C. Bullock
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824833879
- eISBN:
- 9780824870836
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824833879.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This book provides the first systematic analysis of Japanese literary feminist discourse of the 1960s—a full decade before the “women's lib” movement emerged in Japan. It highlights the work of three ...
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This book provides the first systematic analysis of Japanese literary feminist discourse of the 1960s—a full decade before the “women's lib” movement emerged in Japan. It highlights the work of three well-known female fiction writers of this generation (Kōno Taeko, Takahashi Takako, and Kurahashi Yumiko) for their avant-garde literary challenges to dominant models of femininity. Focusing on four tropes persistently employed by these writers to protest oppressive gender stereotypes—the disciplinary masculine gaze, feminist misogyny, “odd bodies,” and female homoeroticism—the book brings to the fore their previously unrecognized theoretical contributions to second-wave radical feminist discourse. In all of these narrative strategies, the female body is viewed as both the object and instrument of engendering. Severing the discursive connection between bodily sex and gender is thus a primary objective of the narratives and a necessary first step toward a less restrictive vision of female subjectivity in modern Japan. The book further demonstrates that this “gender trouble” was historically embedded in the socioeconomic circumstances of the high-growth economy of the 1960s, when prosperity was underwritten by an increasingly conservative gendered division of labor that sought to confine women within feminine roles. The book affords a cogent and incisive analysis of these texts as feminist philosophy in fictional form, arguing persuasively for the inclusion of such literary feminist discourse in the broader history of Japanese feminist theoretical development.Less
This book provides the first systematic analysis of Japanese literary feminist discourse of the 1960s—a full decade before the “women's lib” movement emerged in Japan. It highlights the work of three well-known female fiction writers of this generation (Kōno Taeko, Takahashi Takako, and Kurahashi Yumiko) for their avant-garde literary challenges to dominant models of femininity. Focusing on four tropes persistently employed by these writers to protest oppressive gender stereotypes—the disciplinary masculine gaze, feminist misogyny, “odd bodies,” and female homoeroticism—the book brings to the fore their previously unrecognized theoretical contributions to second-wave radical feminist discourse. In all of these narrative strategies, the female body is viewed as both the object and instrument of engendering. Severing the discursive connection between bodily sex and gender is thus a primary objective of the narratives and a necessary first step toward a less restrictive vision of female subjectivity in modern Japan. The book further demonstrates that this “gender trouble” was historically embedded in the socioeconomic circumstances of the high-growth economy of the 1960s, when prosperity was underwritten by an increasingly conservative gendered division of labor that sought to confine women within feminine roles. The book affords a cogent and incisive analysis of these texts as feminist philosophy in fictional form, arguing persuasively for the inclusion of such literary feminist discourse in the broader history of Japanese feminist theoretical development.
Margery Palmer McCulloch
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748634743
- eISBN:
- 9780748651900
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748634743.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter studies several female fiction writers, their responses to modernity and the contribution these responses have made to a Scottish modernism, taking a look at the difference between ...
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This chapter studies several female fiction writers, their responses to modernity and the contribution these responses have made to a Scottish modernism, taking a look at the difference between ‘women's history and a history informed by understandings of gender’. It discusses the early phase of feminist modernist criticism and notes that most of these female writers came from a higher social class than their male counterparts in Scotland.Less
This chapter studies several female fiction writers, their responses to modernity and the contribution these responses have made to a Scottish modernism, taking a look at the difference between ‘women's history and a history informed by understandings of gender’. It discusses the early phase of feminist modernist criticism and notes that most of these female writers came from a higher social class than their male counterparts in Scotland.
Isobel Grundy
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198187653
- eISBN:
- 9780191674730
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198187653.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
Lady Mary turned fifteen between 1704–5. At fifteen, she said that she longed to rule as abbess over a Protestant nunnery or retired community of women. One of her two surviving albums of juvenile ...
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Lady Mary turned fifteen between 1704–5. At fifteen, she said that she longed to rule as abbess over a Protestant nunnery or retired community of women. One of her two surviving albums of juvenile writing has ‘1704’ and ‘1705’ on its title-page and cover, and claims to have been compiled at fourteen. The other includes a couple of poems written in May 1705 about a crisis in the writer's relationship with the friend who has been her muse and inspiration.Less
Lady Mary turned fifteen between 1704–5. At fifteen, she said that she longed to rule as abbess over a Protestant nunnery or retired community of women. One of her two surviving albums of juvenile writing has ‘1704’ and ‘1705’ on its title-page and cover, and claims to have been compiled at fourteen. The other includes a couple of poems written in May 1705 about a crisis in the writer's relationship with the friend who has been her muse and inspiration.
Joan Judge
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520284364
- eISBN:
- 9780520959934
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520284364.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter introduces the genre of the commercial periodical press. It defines the nature of this press by examining a number of terms used to describe it, including popular, women’s, commercial, ...
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This chapter introduces the genre of the commercial periodical press. It defines the nature of this press by examining a number of terms used to describe it, including popular, women’s, commercial, and general interest. It further discusses the recent redemption of this genre of materials after decades of ideologically driven scholarly neglect that was first instigated by New Culture intellectuals in the late 1910s. It outlines three dialectical tensions that mark the contents of the journal that are central to the analysis throughout the book: tensions between the journal’s reformist and commercial objectives, between its everyday and epic agendas, and between the strategies of its male editor and authors and the tactics of its female writers and contributors. Finally, the introduction briefly outlines each of the succeeding chapters.Less
This chapter introduces the genre of the commercial periodical press. It defines the nature of this press by examining a number of terms used to describe it, including popular, women’s, commercial, and general interest. It further discusses the recent redemption of this genre of materials after decades of ideologically driven scholarly neglect that was first instigated by New Culture intellectuals in the late 1910s. It outlines three dialectical tensions that mark the contents of the journal that are central to the analysis throughout the book: tensions between the journal’s reformist and commercial objectives, between its everyday and epic agendas, and between the strategies of its male editor and authors and the tactics of its female writers and contributors. Finally, the introduction briefly outlines each of the succeeding chapters.
Penelope Anderson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780748655823
- eISBN:
- 9780748676620
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748655823.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
This chapter focuses on two female writers, Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell, who articulate the political separatism that becomes the lasting story of female friendship. From the eighteenth ...
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This chapter focuses on two female writers, Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell, who articulate the political separatism that becomes the lasting story of female friendship. From the eighteenth century forward, friendship offers, at best, a site of escape from the world: female friends prepare for marriages, or run away from familial tyranny, or offer an isolated example of private virtue. They do not reform governments. What we now think about when we think about friendship has everything to do with what particular women writers use it to do in a particular historical moment, and with how rapidly their forthright acknowledgment of political betrayal becomes unthinkable.Less
This chapter focuses on two female writers, Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell, who articulate the political separatism that becomes the lasting story of female friendship. From the eighteenth century forward, friendship offers, at best, a site of escape from the world: female friends prepare for marriages, or run away from familial tyranny, or offer an isolated example of private virtue. They do not reform governments. What we now think about when we think about friendship has everything to do with what particular women writers use it to do in a particular historical moment, and with how rapidly their forthright acknowledgment of political betrayal becomes unthinkable.
Isobel Grundy
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198187653
- eISBN:
- 9780191674730
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198187653.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
This introductory chapter presents an account of the life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Born into the highest nobility, Lady Montague was brilliant in mind and beautiful in face and body. She ...
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This introductory chapter presents an account of the life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Born into the highest nobility, Lady Montague was brilliant in mind and beautiful in face and body. She educated herself, since no one else would do it for her. Sooner than marry the peer's son chosen by her father, she eloped with an untitled man who later became, by his own efforts, one of the richest in the land. Long before that his appointment as British ambassador to Turkey made her the first Englishwoman to experience and report on life in a non-Christian, non-European culture: a unique literary opportunity which she grasped with both hands. Her daughter married a future Prime Minister and spread her bloodline far and wide among the English and Scottish nobility. When London life galled her, she moved abroad, and lived for twenty years in France and Italy. During those years she was accountable to no one but herself, in a manner almost unimaginable for most women of her period.Less
This introductory chapter presents an account of the life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Born into the highest nobility, Lady Montague was brilliant in mind and beautiful in face and body. She educated herself, since no one else would do it for her. Sooner than marry the peer's son chosen by her father, she eloped with an untitled man who later became, by his own efforts, one of the richest in the land. Long before that his appointment as British ambassador to Turkey made her the first Englishwoman to experience and report on life in a non-Christian, non-European culture: a unique literary opportunity which she grasped with both hands. Her daughter married a future Prime Minister and spread her bloodline far and wide among the English and Scottish nobility. When London life galled her, she moved abroad, and lived for twenty years in France and Italy. During those years she was accountable to no one but herself, in a manner almost unimaginable for most women of her period.
Owen Dudley Edwards
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748616510
- eISBN:
- 9780748653621
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748616510.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter looks at the sudden increase of female writers during the war, as well as the portrayal of fathers in wartime fiction, and identifies Graham Greene as the finest historical witness to ...
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This chapter looks at the sudden increase of female writers during the war, as well as the portrayal of fathers in wartime fiction, and identifies Graham Greene as the finest historical witness to how British children read during the war. It studies the female heroes who faced male bullies and even the threat of rape, and also considers feminists and feminism during the war.Less
This chapter looks at the sudden increase of female writers during the war, as well as the portrayal of fathers in wartime fiction, and identifies Graham Greene as the finest historical witness to how British children read during the war. It studies the female heroes who faced male bullies and even the threat of rape, and also considers feminists and feminism during the war.
Eileen Fauset
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719055577
- eISBN:
- 9781781702222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719055577.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature
This chapter discusses female travel writers, who normally wrote from a perspective characterised by the nature of their personal domestic experience, and notes that Kavanagh was also subject to some ...
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This chapter discusses female travel writers, who normally wrote from a perspective characterised by the nature of their personal domestic experience, and notes that Kavanagh was also subject to some form of gender censure and restrictiveness. It studies Kavanagh's A Summer and Winter in the Two Sicilies, in which she uses a domestic approach and comments on the gender politics and cultural contradictions of life in the two Sicilies. The chapter then refers to women travellers, and observes that Kavanagh presents a prominent voice as she draws on the context of cultural ‘differences’ in Italian and English women. It concludes that her interest in and delivery of the experiences of women are a form of political writing in itself.Less
This chapter discusses female travel writers, who normally wrote from a perspective characterised by the nature of their personal domestic experience, and notes that Kavanagh was also subject to some form of gender censure and restrictiveness. It studies Kavanagh's A Summer and Winter in the Two Sicilies, in which she uses a domestic approach and comments on the gender politics and cultural contradictions of life in the two Sicilies. The chapter then refers to women travellers, and observes that Kavanagh presents a prominent voice as she draws on the context of cultural ‘differences’ in Italian and English women. It concludes that her interest in and delivery of the experiences of women are a form of political writing in itself.
Isobel Grundy
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198187653
- eISBN:
- 9780191674730
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198187653.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
No evidence survives of serious aspirants to Lady Mary's hand before Edward Wortley. Her father bought a fine house, Berrymead Priory at Acton near London, in 1708; he may have thought that time ...
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No evidence survives of serious aspirants to Lady Mary's hand before Edward Wortley. Her father bought a fine house, Berrymead Priory at Acton near London, in 1708; he may have thought that time spent within reach of fashionable society would help him to get his children married. But a potential suitor for one of them received a courteous brush-off.Less
No evidence survives of serious aspirants to Lady Mary's hand before Edward Wortley. Her father bought a fine house, Berrymead Priory at Acton near London, in 1708; he may have thought that time spent within reach of fashionable society would help him to get his children married. But a potential suitor for one of them received a courteous brush-off.
Adam Piette
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748635276
- eISBN:
- 9780748651771
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748635276.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter discusses the conflicting views of male and female writers on the Cold War nuclear programme. It looks at the mothers's concern that the nuclear tests were releasing radioactivity into ...
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This chapter discusses the conflicting views of male and female writers on the Cold War nuclear programme. It looks at the mothers's concern that the nuclear tests were releasing radioactivity into the air. Men, on the other hand, feature a different form of the gendered viral properties of the nuclear paranoia. The chapter takes a detailed look at the works of Grace Paley, William Burroughs, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath that feature nuclear testing and radioactivity. It also provides an alternative view, which is the metaphorical substantiation of the Cold War links between genetic research and nuclear energy.Less
This chapter discusses the conflicting views of male and female writers on the Cold War nuclear programme. It looks at the mothers's concern that the nuclear tests were releasing radioactivity into the air. Men, on the other hand, feature a different form of the gendered viral properties of the nuclear paranoia. The chapter takes a detailed look at the works of Grace Paley, William Burroughs, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath that feature nuclear testing and radioactivity. It also provides an alternative view, which is the metaphorical substantiation of the Cold War links between genetic research and nuclear energy.
Emily Coit
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474408912
- eISBN:
- 9781474445030
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474408912.003.0020
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter revisits a site of foundational feminist scholarship to ask new questions about gender, class, race, health and motherhood. Examining two iconic fin-de-siècle female writers, Edith ...
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This chapter revisits a site of foundational feminist scholarship to ask new questions about gender, class, race, health and motherhood. Examining two iconic fin-de-siècle female writers, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Gilman, it highlights an age-old tension in their work, articulated via contemporary eugenics, between the portrayal of the female body and that of the female intellect. It shows that both writers held antiquated views about female agency that sit uncomfortably with their common association with feminism and modernity.Less
This chapter revisits a site of foundational feminist scholarship to ask new questions about gender, class, race, health and motherhood. Examining two iconic fin-de-siècle female writers, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Gilman, it highlights an age-old tension in their work, articulated via contemporary eugenics, between the portrayal of the female body and that of the female intellect. It shows that both writers held antiquated views about female agency that sit uncomfortably with their common association with feminism and modernity.
Isobel Grundy
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198187653
- eISBN:
- 9780191674730
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198187653.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
Mary's father chose Clotworthy Skeffington and heir to Viscount Massereene, to be her husband. Though she often talked of knuckling under, she felt she ‘had rather give my hand to the Flames than to ...
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Mary's father chose Clotworthy Skeffington and heir to Viscount Massereene, to be her husband. Though she often talked of knuckling under, she felt she ‘had rather give my hand to the Flames than to him’. It was in this desperate juncture of her affairs that she received out of the blue, in early June 1712, a letter from Edward Wortley Montagu. He was still in love, and he saw her slipping out of his grasp forever.Less
Mary's father chose Clotworthy Skeffington and heir to Viscount Massereene, to be her husband. Though she often talked of knuckling under, she felt she ‘had rather give my hand to the Flames than to him’. It was in this desperate juncture of her affairs that she received out of the blue, in early June 1712, a letter from Edward Wortley Montagu. He was still in love, and he saw her slipping out of his grasp forever.
Lois Parkinson Zamora
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853237365
- eISBN:
- 9781846312540
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853237365.003.0014
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This chapter begins by explaining the differences between nineteenth-century male writers' privileging of silence and late twentieth-century female writers' efforts to rectify the imbalances that ...
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This chapter begins by explaining the differences between nineteenth-century male writers' privileging of silence and late twentieth-century female writers' efforts to rectify the imbalances that result from being silenced. It then discusses novels by Toni Morrison, Leslie Marmon Silko, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Sandra Cisneros in order to discover the means by which they acknowledge the threats to an autonomous female self and attempt to create a fully inclusive community that hears women's voices and fashions a new history of gender, race, and ethnic relations. Voices of the living and the dead, choruses, sounds, songs, folktales, mythic adventure stories, and different languages are some of the elements used by the novelists in this process. The chapter argues that ‘finding a voice to transcend the “nothingness” of invisible histories and cultures constitutes a feminist mode in contemporary US fiction’.Less
This chapter begins by explaining the differences between nineteenth-century male writers' privileging of silence and late twentieth-century female writers' efforts to rectify the imbalances that result from being silenced. It then discusses novels by Toni Morrison, Leslie Marmon Silko, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Sandra Cisneros in order to discover the means by which they acknowledge the threats to an autonomous female self and attempt to create a fully inclusive community that hears women's voices and fashions a new history of gender, race, and ethnic relations. Voices of the living and the dead, choruses, sounds, songs, folktales, mythic adventure stories, and different languages are some of the elements used by the novelists in this process. The chapter argues that ‘finding a voice to transcend the “nothingness” of invisible histories and cultures constitutes a feminist mode in contemporary US fiction’.
Helen Carr
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846310737
- eISBN:
- 9781846314476
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846314476.006
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter examines the life and work of Beryl Bainbridge, who was born in 1934 and brought up in Formby in Lancashire, on the coast just north of Liverpool. Bainbridge's writing career is often ...
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This chapter examines the life and work of Beryl Bainbridge, who was born in 1934 and brought up in Formby in Lancashire, on the coast just north of Liverpool. Bainbridge's writing career is often viewed as consisting of two distinct stages: her early work, in which she often draws on her own background, mainly set in Liverpool; and her later books, from the early 1990s onwards, which are much more wide-ranging historical novels. Bainbridge's books are brief, often less than 200 pages; her writing is sharp and spare, yet psychologically complex, densely plotted, and compellingly narrated. The analysis covers works such as Young Hitler (1978), Watson's Apology (1984), and An Awfully Big Adventure (1989).Less
This chapter examines the life and work of Beryl Bainbridge, who was born in 1934 and brought up in Formby in Lancashire, on the coast just north of Liverpool. Bainbridge's writing career is often viewed as consisting of two distinct stages: her early work, in which she often draws on her own background, mainly set in Liverpool; and her later books, from the early 1990s onwards, which are much more wide-ranging historical novels. Bainbridge's books are brief, often less than 200 pages; her writing is sharp and spare, yet psychologically complex, densely plotted, and compellingly narrated. The analysis covers works such as Young Hitler (1978), Watson's Apology (1984), and An Awfully Big Adventure (1989).
Gill Lowe
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781942954569
- eISBN:
- 9781789629392
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781942954569.003.0036
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
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