| Author | : Lyn Pykett |
| File Size | : 51,7 Mb |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 08 December 2003 |
| ISBN | : 9781134944828 |
| Pages | : 250 pages |
The Improper Feminine by Lyn Pykett Book PDF Summary
The women's sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s were two major examples of a perceived feminine invasion of fiction which caused a critical furore in their day. Both genres, with their shocking, `fast' heroines, fired the popular imagination by putting female sexuality on the literary agenda and undermining the `proper feminine' ideal to which nineteenth-century women and fictional heroines were supposed to aspire. By exploring in impressive depth and breadth the material and discursive conditions in which these novels were produced, The `Improper' Feminine draws attention to key gendered interrelationships within the literary and wider cultures of the mid-Victorian and fin-de-diècle periods.
