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Eve's Renegades

Victorian Anti-Feminist Women Novelists

Valerie Sanders author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:3rd Oct '96

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This study focuses on the work of four Victorian anti-feminist women writers - Eliza Lynn Linton, Charlotte M. Yonge, Mrs Humphry Ward, and Margaret Oliphant - examining their self-contradictory responses to the debate about women's role in family life and society.This study focuses on the work of four Victorian anti-feminist women writers - Eliza Lynn Linton, Charlotte M. Yonge, Mrs Humphry Ward, and Margaret Oliphant - examining their self-contradictory responses to the debate about women's role in family life and society. Individual chapters review women's anti-feminism from 1792-1850, and fresh readings of their best-known novels emphasize the inconsistencies of their masculine and feminine ideals.

ISBN: 9780333663134

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 454g

249 pages