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Women's Literary Portraits in the Victorian and Neo-Victorian Novel
An Intertextual Study
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2023
Summary
Women's Literary Portraits in the Victorian and Neo-Victorian Novel is a dialogical and intertextual journey through the pages of nineteenth-century novels and their modern, revisionary counterparts. It is the book not only dedicated to the readers associated with academia, but also to all literature enthusiasts, students of literature, and those readers who are fascinated by the Victorian novel, as well as by its current neo-Victorian revival. The focus of this work revolves around the literary portrayals of Victorian and neo-Victorian women who, as the authoress believes, are located in the centre of socio-cultural and historical narratives shaping both the past and the present. Nineteenth-century narratives concerning women's placement and status in the Victorian social landscape are currently revived on the pages of neo-Victorian novels, thus attesting to the unceasing interest in the bygone. While neo-Victorian revisionary fiction endows nineteenth-century women with a redemptive potential, it also exposes modern paradoxes and ambiguities connected with universal expectations towards women, what further approximates our contemporaneity to the Victorian past. While examining these socio-cultural ambivalences, the authoress celebrates Victorian and neo-Victorian women characters in their attempts to thrive as individuals. Consequently, the book studies Victorian and neo-Victorian women characters in relation to their identities, unique voices and textual garments.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-0577-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-0578-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
248
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Dialogue in Revisionary Fiction No access
Intertextuality No access
Intertextuality in Practice No access
The Novel Domesticated in the Victorian World No access
The Victorian Novel and Social Debate No access
Profits, Ideals, and the “Self” No access
The Woman Question or Women Questions? No access
The Ethics of the Past and the Present No access
Beyond Nostalgia No access
Women and Spiritual Revival No access
Women and Family in the Neo-Victorian Novel No access
The New Woman Restaged No access
Women and their Apparel in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Texts No access
Diving Deeper into Fashion No access
Voice and Identity in the Victorian and Neo-Victorian Novel No access
