Modernism and the Women's Popular Romance in Britain, 1885-1925 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780821419700)

Today's mass-market romances have their precursors in late Victorian popular novels written by and for women. In Modernism and the Women's Popular Romance Martin Hipsky scrutinizes some of the best-selling British fiction from the period 1885 to 1925, the era when romances, especially those by British women, were sold and read more widely than ever before or since.

Recent scholarship has explored the desires and anxieties addressed by both "low modern" and "high modernist" British culture in the decades straddling the turn of the twentieth century. In keeping with these new studies, Hipsky offers a nuanced portrait of an important phenomenon in the history of modern fiction. He puts popular romances by Mrs. Humphry Ward, Marie Corelli, the Baroness Orczy, Florence Barclay, Elinor Glyn, Victoria Cross, Ethel Dell, and E. M. Hull into direct relationship with the fiction of Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, and D. H. Lawrence, among other modernist greats.


Author: Martin Hipsky
ISBN-10: 0821419706
ISBN-13: 9780821419700
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2011
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2012 pg. 183
Choice 12/01/2012