Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin de Siecle (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813520186)

At the turn of the century, short stories by -- and often about -- "New Women" flooded the pages English and American magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, and the Yellow Book. This daring new fiction, often innovative in form and courageous in its candid representations of female sexuality, marital discontent, and feminist protest, shocked Victorian critics, who denounced the authors as "literary degenerates" or "erotomaniacs." This collection brings together twenty of the most original and important stories from this period. The writers included in this highly readable volume are Kate Chopin, Victoria Cross, George Egerton, Julia Constance Fletcher, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Grand, Vernon Lee, Ada Leverson, Charlotte Mew, Olive Schreiner, Edith Wharton, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and Mabel E. Wotton. As Elaine Showalter shows in her introduction, the short fiction of the Fin-de-Siecle is the missing link between the Golden Age of Victorian women writers and the new era of feminist modernism.

Author: Elaine Showalter
ISBN-10: 0813520185
ISBN-13: 9780813520186
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1993
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.10w x 0.81d