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9780877454939 | Univ of Iowa Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: What exactly is girls' fiction?
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9780333626733, titled "What Katy Read: Feminist Re-readings of âclassic' Stories for Girls" | Palgrave Macmillan, April 5, 1995, cover price $59.99 | About this edition: This study focuses on literature for girls.
Product Description: This anthology aims to challenge stereotypes of women travellers. Rather than simply presenting writings by Victorian women who travelled bravely around the world disregarding social convention and danger, the editors present a range of writing and possible ways of being a woman traveller...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780719050176 | Manchester Univ Pr, November 23, 2002, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: From eccentric, to cautious, to conventional, An anthology of Women's Travel Writing aims to challenge stereotypes of women travelers by presenting a range of possible forms of writing and new archetypes of female travelers.
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9780719050183 | Manchester Univ Pr, November 23, 2002, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This anthology aims to challenge stereotypes of women travellers.
Product Description: This literary biographical study examines the life and works of the mid-Victorian woman novelist, Elizabeth Gaskell, whose popularity is now well established. It places her writing in the context of her attitudes towards creative production, her relationship with publishers, and her literary friendships, as well as examining those events of her life which fed into her work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780333695814 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 4, 2003, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This literary biographical study examines the life and works of the mid-Victorian woman novelist, Elizabeth Gaskell, whose popularity is now well established.
Product Description: Set in Manchester in the 1840s, Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the city's working-class community. Paralleling the novel's treatment of the relationship between masters and men, the suffering of the poor, and the workmen's angry response, is the story of Mary herself--a factory-worker's daughter who attracts the attentions of the mill-owner's son, who becomes caught up in the violence of class conflict when a brutal murder forces her to confront her true feelings and allegiances...read more
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9780199538355 | Reissue edition (Oxford Univ Pr, February 15, 2009), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Set in Manchester in the 1840s, Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the city's working-class community.
Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women’s fiction shows how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and the often more attractive alternative of single or professional life. In arguing that the tensions and dualities of their work represent the honest confrontation of their own ambivalence rather than attempted conformity to convention, it calls for a fresh look at patterns of imaginative representation in Victorian women’s literature. Making extensive use of letters and non-fiction, this study relates the opinions expressed there to the themes and methods of the fictional narratives. The first chapter outlines the social and ideological framework within which the authors were writing; the subsequent five chapters deal with the individual novelists, Craik, Charlotte Bronté, Sewell, Gaskell, and Eliot, examining the works of each and also pointing to the similarities between them, thus suggesting a shared female ‘voice’. Dealing with minor writers as well as better-known figures, it opens up new areas of critical investigation, claiming not only that many nineteenth-century female novelists have been undeservedly neglected but also that the major ones are further illuminated by being considered alongside their less familiar contemporaries.
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9780415524117, titled "Victorian Women's Fiction: Marriage, Freedom, and the Individual" | Reprint edition (Routledge, July 17, 2012), cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women’s fiction shows how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and the often more attractive alternative of single or professional life.
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9780415752305, titled "Victorian Women's Fiction: Marriage, Freedom, and the Individual" | Routledge, July 17, 2012, cover price $54.95
9780389206743 | Reprint edition (Barnes & Noble Imports, November 1, 1986), cover price $25.00
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