Sisters in Time: Imagining Gender in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

by Susan Morgan

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Asking why the 19th-century British novel features heroines, and how and why it features "feminine heroism," Susan Morgan traces the relationship between fictional depictions of gender and Victorian ideas of history and progress. Morgan approaches gender in selected 19th-century British novels as an imaginative category, accessible to authors and characters of either sex. Arguing that conventional definitions of heroism offer a fixed and history-denying...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195058224

ISBN13:9780195058222

Release Date:August 1989

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Anthologies Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Poetry Short Stories

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