| Description |
xviii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"School-Miss Alfred" and "Materfamilias": Female sexuality and poetic voice in The Princess and Aurora Leigh / Beverly Taylor -- Dialogue on the darkling plain: Genre, gender, and audience in Matthew Arnold's lyrics / Mary Ellis Gibson -- Ambiguous bodies: Keats and the problem of resurrection in Tennyson's "Demeter and Persephone" / Deborah A. Hooker -- "Equal before God": Christina Rossetti and the fallen women of Highgate penitentiary / Diane D'Amico -- Violence, |
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creativity, and the feminine: Poetics and gender politics in Swinburne and Hopkins / Thaïs E. Morgan -- The voicing of feminine desire in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall / Elizabeth Langland -- Children of empire: Victorian imperialism and sexual politics in Dickens and Kipling / Deirdre David. |
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(cont.) Not all men are selfish and cruel: Felix Holt as a feminist novel / Alison Booth -- Gender and silence in Thomas Hardy's texts / William W. Morgan -- Swinburne and the critique of ideology in The Awakening / Antony H. Harrison -- "The Necessity of a Name": Portrayals and betrayals of Victorian women artists / Susan P. Casteras -- Margaret M. Giles's Hero and the sublime female nude / George P. Landow -- Salomé: Exotic woman and the transcendent dance / Amy Koritz. |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Feminism and art -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Authorship -- Sex differences.
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Sex role in literature.
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Art, British.
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| Added Author |
Harrison, Antony H.
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Taylor, Beverly, 1947-
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| ISBN |
0875801684 (acid-free paper) |
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