Product Description: A collection of both familiar and unfamiliar primary texts thatilluminate the world ofnineteenth century ideas. An expert team gather together, introduce and annotate a range of original social, cultural, political and historical documents necessary for contextualising key texts from the Victorian period...read more

Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century is a fascinating, lucid, and controversial study of the centrality of eugenic debate to the Victorians. Reappraising the operation of social and sexual power in Victorian society and fiction, it makes a radical contribution to English studies, nineteenth-century and gender studies, and the history of science.

A cultural icon of the fin de siècle , the New Woman was not one figure, but several. In the guise of a bicycling, cigarette-smoking Amazon, the New Woman romped through the pages of Punch and popular fiction; as a neurasthenic victim of social oppression, she suffered in the pages of New Woman novels such as Sarah Grand's hugely successful The Heavenly Twins . The New Woman in Fiction and Fact marks a radically new departure in nineteenth-century scholarship to explore the polyvocal nature of the late Victorian debates around gender, motherhood, class, race and imperialism which converged in the name of the New Woman. (view table of contents)

Charting a world transformed by social, literary, sexual, and cultural upheaval, an anthology of short fiction looks at society through the eyes of women as they confront new choices in marriage, motherhood, love, and work, in tales by Oscar Wilde, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Thomas Hardy, and other notable authors, as well as biographies of the authors, a detailed chronology of social and literary history, and more. Original.

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