Gender, Genre, and Victorian Historical Writing (Literature and Society in Victorian Britain)

Language: English

Published by Routledge, 1998

0815328974 / 9780815328971

Series: Book 2 of 6 - Literature and Society in Victorian Britain

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Brand new. Clean, unmarked pages. Fine binding and cover. Hardcover. xvii, 229 pages ; 23 cm. "This important interdisciplinary study traces transformations in Victorial historical writing that made possible new ways of thinking about and representing women in history. Combining literary history with cultural studies and feminist historiography, it examines a wide array of essays and reviews from Victorian periodicals to provide the terms and context for innovative readings of George Eliot's novels Romola and Middlemarch and of a range of nineteenth-century historical works, including works by and about women that are discussed extensively here for the first time. The blurring of boundaries between historical and fictional narratives, stimulated by the enormous success of Walter Scott's novels, and the development of social history are shown to have been key factors in an uneven, controversial, but persistent feminization of history, the first because of the longstanding association of novels with women the second because social history focuses on the private sphere, traditionally women's domain. Along with the appearance of numerous historical texts written by women and taking women as their subjects, these developments challenged conventional beliefs about historical authority and relevance that had long relegated women to the margins, both literally and metaphorically. In its exploration of these changes and their implications, Gender and Victorian Historical Writing revises standard assumptions about Victorian ideas of history, finding an awareness of and experimentation with gender and genre that prefigure theoretical and scholarly concerns in contemporary women's history.".…

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Title
Gender, Genre, and Victorian Historical Writing (Literature and Society in Victorian Britain)
Author
Maitzen, Rohan Amanda
Publisher
Routledge
Publication year
1998
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Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
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0815328974
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9780815328971
Item weight
15 ounces
Series
Book 2 of 6: Literature and Society in Victorian Britain
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