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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Nineteenth century women writers"”.
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Private Voices Teaching Public Values in the Fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and Sarah Orne Jewett
… re-examines the purpose and value of New England women's local color fiction, asserting that local color functions as the groundwork on which the standards and practices of literary realism are based and as the way that nineteenth-century women writers could promote their domestic ministry. …
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A vindication of fallen women : Victorian women writers reconceiving gender.
In my dissertation, “A Vindication of Fallen Women: Victorian Women Writers Reconceiving Gender,” I argue that nineteenth-century women writers rework Mary Wollstonecraft’s pioneering feminist text A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) to generate a new ideology of gender. Using feminist and …
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Monstrous 'Others': The Legacy of Race, Hybridity, and Intersectionality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
In the late eighteen and early nineteenth centuries, the construct of race became fixed in the collective consciousness of Europeans, in large part due to the efforts of Enlightenment-age scientists who sought to classify and define all species. Much of their research is eventually used to justify …
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Kind Girls, Evil Sisters, And Wise Women: Coded Gender Discourse In Literary Fairy Tales By German Women In The 19th Century
… is an analysis of fairy tales by German women in late eighteenth and nineteenth century. Although hundreds of women published fairy tales in Germany in the nineteenth century, they remain absent from current scholarship. Recent work by scholars Shawn Jarvis and Jeannine Blackwell have …