New Woman Fiction: Women Writing First-Wave Feminism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333794166)

The New Woman was the symbol of the shifting categories of gender and sexuality and epitomised the spirit of the fin de siècle . This informative monograph offers an interdisciplinary approach to the growing field of New Woman studies by exploring the relationship between first-wave feminist literature, the nineteenth-century women's movement and female consumer culture. The book expertly places the debate about femininity, feminism and fiction in its cultural and socio-historical context, examining New Woman fiction as a genre whose emerging theoretical discourse prefigured concepts central to second-wave feminist theory.

Author: A. Heilmann
ISBN-10: 0333794168
ISBN-13: 9780333794166
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/09/2000
Pages: 221
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d