The New Woman Fiction and Feminism at the Fin De Siècle

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. She alights on such disparate figures as Eleanor Marx, Gertrude Dix, Dracula, Oscar Wilde, Olive Schreiner and Radclyffe Hall. Focusing mainly on the last two decades of the nineteenth century, the book's later chapters project forward into the twentieth century, considering the relationship between new woman fiction and early modernism as well as the socio-sexual inheritance of the 'second generation' new woman writers.

ISBN:	9780719040931
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Published date:	10 Jul 1997
DEWEY:	305.42094109034
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	272
Weight:	300g
Height:	216mm
Width:	139mm
Spine width:	14mm

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