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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Victorian women writers"”.
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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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Sentimentalism and Marginality: Empathy and Empowerment for the Adult women in The Heir of Redclyffe, Jessica's First Prayer, and Misunderstood
… this thesis, I will examine the ways that three. Victorian women writers-Charlotte Yonge (1823-1901), Hesba Stretton (1823-1911), and Florence Montgomery (1843-1923)-worked out of their societal position to create texts that influenced a wide number of readers and even constructed their tastes. In …
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Transatlantic Acts: Nation, Self-Narration, and Celebrity in Victorian and Modernist Women's Autobiography
This dissertation examines select Victorian and Modernist women writers' autobiographical narratives with attention to how the presence of transatlantic travel' bodily and textual, between Europe and America' links private processes of self-narration to public critiques of nation-specific systems, …
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A Domesticated Idea: British Women Writers and the Victorian Recipe, 1845-1910
<p>Until recently, critics have devalued the Victorian cookbook as an object of literary inquiry, regularly dismissing it as “Victoriana”—cultural, anthropological histories detailing bland culinary traditions. <em>A Domesticated Idea: British Women Writers and the Victorian Recipe, 1845-1910</em> …