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Illuminates the development, main features, and results of Shaw's views on liberation and equality for women
By Rodelle Weintraub (editor)

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9780271012353 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, April 1, 1977, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Illuminates the development, main features, and results of Shaw's views on liberation and equality for women

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Product Description: Most of the major challenges of the women's liberation movement, argues this book, were reflected in late 19th-century fiction, and this concern had a significant effect on the art of the novel.Although primarily a work of criticism, the presentation is informed more than is customary by social history since the period covered was 'a particularly tumultuous phase of the women's liberation movement' throughout Europe...read more

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9780271012414 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, August 1, 1977, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Most of the major challenges of the women's liberation movement, argues this book, were reflected in late 19th-century fiction, and this concern had a significant effect on the art of the novel.

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9780064913478 | Barnes & Noble Imports, March 1, 1979, cover price $46.50

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Examines the works of three Victorian writers, looks at the ways they subverted and affirmed their society, and discusses women's higher education in nineteenth century England

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9780801419652 | Cornell Univ Pr, December 1, 1987, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: Examines the works of three Victorian writers, looks at the ways they subverted and affirmed their society, and discusses women's higher education in nineteenth century England

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9780801494147 | Reprint edition (Cornell Univ Pr, September 1, 1989), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Examines the works of three Victorian writers, looks at the ways they subverted and affirmed their society, and discusses women's higher education in nineteenth century England
9780333447260 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 1, 1987, cover price $49.99 | About this edition: Examines the works of three Victorian writers, looks at the ways they subverted and affirmed their society, and discusses women's higher education in nineteenth century England.

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Product Description: In the 19th century it was widely believed by both sexes that men and women should operate in separate domains. Men's innate aggression and superior powers of reason were clearly put to best effect in public life - in politics, in the armed forces, in business and the professions...read more

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9780631163954 | Blackwell Pub, June 1, 1989, cover price $54.95

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9780631163961 | Blackwell Pub, August 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In the 19th century it was widely believed by both sexes that men and women should operate in separate domains.

Product Description: narrative discourse in the victorian novel

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9780813514321 | Rutgers Univ Pr, November 1, 1989, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: narrative discourse in the victorian novel
9780813514567 | Rutgers Univ Pr, November 1, 1989, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: narrative discourse in the victorian novel

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"... Boumelha offers fascinating analyses of Brontë's work and of feminist criticism of Brontë." —Choice

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9780253301079 | Indiana Univ Pr, September 1, 1990, cover price $29.95

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9780253254559 | Indiana Univ Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $5.25 | About this edition: ".

Product Description: An interdisciplinary investigation into the daughter's role in 19th-century families and their fictional representations.

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9780472102341 | Univ of Michigan Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: An interdisciplinary investigation into the daughter's role in 19th-century families and their fictional representations.

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9780472082322 | Reprint edition (Univ of Michigan Pr, July 1, 1993), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An interdisciplinary investigation into the daughter's role in 19th-century families and their fictional representations.

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Product Description: Anyone interested in Women's history, literary studies, or the occult will find this book engaging and valuable.

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9780814711743 | New York Univ Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: Anyone interested in Women's history, literary studies, or the occult will find this book engaging and valuable.

Product Description: This collection of original essays offers a broad and varied discussion of gender issues and treatments of sexuality in Victorian poetry, fiction, and visual arts. Featuring a representative selection of artists—poets, novelists, painters, sculptors, playwrights, and dancers—these critical analyses explore the ways in which women as artists, as subjects, and as icons function either to challenge and revise or to reify their society's gender ideologies...read more
By Antony H. Harrison (editor) and Beverly Taylor (editor)

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9780875801681 | Northern Illinois Univ Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $38.50 | About this edition: This collection of original essays offers a broad and varied discussion of gender issues and treatments of sexuality in Victorian poetry, fiction, and visual arts.

Product Description: A cornucopia of insight into the hushed reality of 19th century attitudes on pregnancy, childbearing, and motherhood as peppered in the poignant proise of three of England's best-loved authresses: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,and Emily Bronte.

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9780866632034 | Ide House Inc, December 1, 1992, cover price $5.00 | About this edition: A cornucopia of insight into the hushed reality of 19th century attitudes on pregnancy, childbearing, and motherhood as peppered in the poignant proise of three of England's best-loved authresses: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,and Emily Bronte.

Product Description: Arguing that affect has a history, Ann Cvetkovich challenges both nineteenth- and twentieth-century claims that the expression of feeling is naturally or intrinsically liberating or reactionary. The central focus of Mixed Feelings is the Victorian sensation novel, the fad genre of the 1860s, whose controversial popularity marks an important moment in the history of mass culture...read more

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9780813518565 | Rutgers Univ Pr, December 1, 1992, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: Arguing that affect has a history, Ann Cvetkovich challenges both nineteenth- and twentieth-century claims that the expression of feeling is naturally or intrinsically liberating or reactionary.

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9780813518572 | Rutgers Univ Pr, December 1, 1992, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: .

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Product Description: This study is motivated by questions concerning notions of aesthetics and literary value as defined in the context of late-Victorian culture. By refiguring the prominence of the feminist political agenda and the cultural constuction of the "new woman", the book seeks to examine how feminist, politically motivated authors sought to intrude upon and challenge aesthetic proscriptions that impacted on gender...read more

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9780333619650 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 8, 1995, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: This study is motivated by questions concerning notions of aesthetics and literary value as defined in the context of late-Victorian culture.
9780312107390 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 1, 1995, cover price $130.00

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Product Description: The 1840s, 50s, and 60s: three decades during which the British feminist movement saw some of its most intense activity of the nineteenth-century, and readers find some of the most monstrous, troubling representations of women by male writers in all of literary history...read more

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9780814735367 | New York Univ Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The 1840s, 50s, and 60s: three decades during which the British feminist movement saw some of its most intense activity of the nineteenth-century, and readers find some of the most monstrous, troubling representations of women by male writers in all of literary history.

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9780814735374 | New York Univ Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: The 1840s, 50s, and 60s: three decades during which the British feminist movement saw some of its most intense activity of the nineteenth-century, and readers find some of the most monstrous, troubling representations of women by male writers in all of literary history.

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Product Description: In Lost Saints Tricia Lootens argues that parallels betwee literary and religious canons are far deeper than has yet been realized. She presents the ideological underpinnings of Victorian literary canonization and the general processes by which it occurred and discloses the unacknowledged traces of canonization at work today...read more

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9780813916521 | Univ of Virginia Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $46.50 | About this edition: In Lost Saints Tricia Lootens argues that parallels betwee literary and religious canons are far deeper than has yet been realized.

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Product Description: This study focuses on the work of four Victorian anti-feminist women writers - Eliza Lynn Linton, Charlotte M. Yonge, Mrs Humphry Ward, and Margaret Oliphant - examining their self-contradictory responses to the debate about women's role in family life and society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780312160579 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 1, 1996, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: This study focuses on the work of four Victorian anti-feminist women writers - Eliza Lynn Linton, Charlotte M.

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9780333663134 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 3, 1996, cover price $69.99

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Product Description: Trollope is usually seen as a faithful mirror of Victorian England, both in providing intimate details of contemporary life and in endorsing the moral attitudes and certainties of the period. His powers of empathy make his characters convincing and knowable in an astonishing way...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781852851521 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 1, 1997, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Trollope is usually seen as a faithful mirror of Victorian England, both in providing intimate details of contemporary life and in endorsing the moral attitudes and certainties of the period.

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Product Description: Sexually transgressive, politically astute and determined to claim educational and employment rights equal to those enjoyed by men, the new woman took centre stage in the cultural landscape of late-Victorian Britain. By comparing the fictional representations with the lived experience of the new woman, Ledger's book makes a major contribution to an understanding of the 'woman question' at the fin de siecle...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780719040924 | Manchester Univ Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Sexually transgressive, politically astute and determined to claim educational and employment rights equal to those enjoyed by men, the new woman took centre stage in the cultural landscape of late-Victorian Britain.

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9780719040931 | Manchester Univ Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Sexually transgressive, politically astute and determined to claim educational and employment rights equal to those enjoyed by men, the new woman took centre stage in the cultural landscape of late-Victorian Britain.

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Product Description: Anna Brownwell Jameson (1794-1869) was a central figure in the London world of letters and art in the early Victorian period, and an important feminist writer. Her friends included such figures as Harriet Martineau, Lady Byron, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781859283790 | Scolar Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Anna Brownwell Jameson (1794-1869) was a central figure in the London world of letters and art in the early Victorian period, and an important feminist writer.

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