The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403917270)

The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction explores the representation of Victorian womanhood in the work of some of today's most important British and North American novelists including A.S. Byatt, Sarah Waters, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter and Toni Morrison. By analysing these novels in the context of the scientific, religious and literary discourses that shaped Victorian ideas about gender, it contributes to an important inter-disciplinary debate. For while showing the power of these discourses to shape women's roles, the novels also suggest how individual women might challenge that power through their own lives.

Author: J. King
ISBN-10: 1403917272
ISBN-13: 9781403917270
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2005
Pages: 210
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 7.92h x 5.12w x 0.66d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2006 pg. 1017