Middlebrow and gender, 1890-1945 /

Middlebrow and gender, 1890-1945 / / edited by Christoph Ehland, Cornelia Wachter.

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Scholars of the middlebrow have demonstrated that the preferences and choices of both women writers and women readers have suffered considerably from the dismissive attitude of earlier critics. George Eliot’s famous attack on ‘Silly Novels by Lady Novelists’ set the tone for the long tradition of ge...

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Superior document:DQR Studies in Literature, Volume 62
TeilnehmendeR:
Ehland, Christoph,
Wächter, Cornelia,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:DQR studies in literature ; Volume 62.
Physical Description:1 online resource (283 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Christoph Ehland and Cornelia Wächter
  • Introduction: “... All Granite, Fog and Female Fiction” / Christoph Ehland and Cornelia Wächter
  • The Short Fiction of New Woman Writers in Avant-Garde, Mainstream, and Popular Periodicals of the Fin de Siècle / Stephanie Eggermont and Elke D’hoker
  • Modernism and the Middlebrow in British Women’s Magazines, 1916-1930 / Alice Wood
  • Gender, Disability, Wartime: The Woman’s Body and the Disabled Ex-Serviceman in the First World War / Kate Macdonald
  • Complementary Cousins: Constructing the Maternal in the Writing of Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield / Isobel Maddison
  • Middlebrow “Everyman” or Modernist Figurehead? Experiencing Modernity through the Eyes of the Humble Clerk / Nicola Bishop
  • “The Heroine of a Modern Sea Epic”: The New Woman Adventuress in Grant Allen’s The Type-Writer Girl / Tara MacDonald
  • The Adventures of the Lady Typist: Redefining the Heroic in Early Twentieth-Century Women’s Spy Fiction / Emma Grundy Haigh
  • Clemence Dane’s Fantastical Fiction and Feminist Consciousness / Louise McDonald
  • The Painted Veil: Re-Inventing the Colonial Woman and the Hinterland Narrative / Wendy Gan
  • Victoria Cross’ Six Chapters of a Man’s Life: Queering Middlebrow Feminism / Petra Dierkes-Thrun
  • Middlebrow Negotiations of Lawrentian Sexuality in Una Silberrad’s Desire / Cornelia Wächter
  • “Ordinary” Sexuality, the “Dirty Little Secret” and the Indecent Highbrow Modernist: Sexuality in Married Love and Lady Chatterley’s Lover / Ann Rea
  • Index / Christoph Ehland and Cornelia Wächter.

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