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Women at odds : indifference, antagonism, and progress in late Victorian literature
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Women at odds : indifference, antagonism, and progress in late Victorian literature / Riya Das.
ISBN
9780814215722
0814215726
9780814283684
0814283683
Publication
Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2024]
Copyright Notice Date
©2024
Physical Description
ix, 199 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"A literary study of the limitations of female solidarity for the New Woman in Victorian society. Uses examples from George Eliot, George Gissing, Olive Schreiner, and Bram Stoker to argue that the fin de siècle New Woman fashions social progress for herself through indifference and antagonism toward femininities she excludes as 'other'."-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 25, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-191) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Wives and daughters leaving home : indifferent and antagonistic new women
An unsympathetic network : female defiance as narrative force in Daniel Deronda
Antagonistic boundaries : the woman professional's retro-progress in The odd women
Settler colonial feminism : unsustainable indifference and antagonism in The story of an African farm
In solidarity with empire : the professional wife and mother in Dracula
Conclusion: Antagonism and indifference : twenty-first-century affordances.
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