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Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines

By: Dr Catherine Delafield

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Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines

By: Dr Catherine Delafield

Examining the Victorian serial as a text in its own right, Catherine Delafield analyzes five novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Dinah Craik and Wilkie Collins in the context of periodical publication. Her book addresses the material conditions of production, illustrates the collective and collaborative creation of the text, and offers fresh readings of novels that appeared in Household Words, Cornhill Magazine, Good Words, All the Year Round and Cassell’s Magazine.

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1472450906

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9781472450906

Literary Theology by Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century

By: Dr Rebecca Styler

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Literary Theology by Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century

By: Dr Rebecca Styler

Examining popular fiction, life writing, poetry and political works, Rebecca Styler explores women's contributions to theology in the nineteenth century. Female writers, Styler argues, acted as amateur theologians by use of a range of literary genres. Through these, they questioned the Christian tradition relative to contemporary concerns about political ethics, gender identity, and personal meaning. Among Styler's subjects are novels by Emma Worboise; writers of collective biography, including Anna Jameson and Clara Balfour, who study Bible women in order to address contemporary concerns about 'The Woman Question'; poetry by Anne Bronte; and political writing by Harriet Martineau and Josephine Butler. As Styler considers the ways in which each writer negotiates the gender constraints and opportunities that are available to her religious setting and literary genre, she shows the varying degrees of frustration which these writers express with the inadequacy of received religion to meet their personal and ethical needs. All find resources within that tradition, and within their experience, to reconfigure Christianity in creative, and more earth-oriented ways.

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1409476219

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9781409476214

Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction

Literacy, Textiles, and Activism

By: Dr Christine Bayles Kortsch

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Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction

Literacy, Textiles, and Activism

By: Dr Christine Bayles Kortsch

In her immensely readable and richly documented book, Christine Bayles Kortsch asks us to shift our understanding of late Victorian literary culture by examining its inextricable relationship with the material culture of dress and sewing. Even as the Education Acts of 1870, 1880, and 1891 extended the privilege of print literacy to greater numbers of the populace, stitching samplers continued to be a way of acculturating girls in both print literacy and what Kortsch terms "dress culture." Kortsch explores nineteenth-century women's education, sewing and needlework, mainstream fashion, alternative dress movements, working-class labor in the textile industry, and forms of social activism, showing how dual literacy in dress and print cultures linked women writers with their readers. Focusing on Victorian novels written between 1870 and 1900, Kortsch examines fiction by writers such as Olive Schreiner, Ella Hepworth Dixon, Margaret Oliphant, Sarah Grand, and Gertrude Dix, with attention to influential predecessors like Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot. Periodicals, with their juxtaposition of journalism, fiction, and articles on dress and sewing are particularly fertile sites for exploring the close linkages between print and dress cultures. Informed by her examinations of costume collections in British and American museums, Kortsch's book broadens our view of New Woman fiction and its relationship both to dress culture and to contemporary women's fiction.

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1409475492

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9781409475491

The Victorian Diary

Authorship and Emotional Labour

By: Dr Anne-Marie Millim

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The Victorian Diary

Authorship and Emotional Labour

By: Dr Anne-Marie Millim

In her examination of neglected diaristic texts, Anne-Marie Millim expands the field of Victorian diary criticism by complicating the conventional notion of diaries as mainly private sources of biographical information. She argues that for Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Henry Crabb Robinson, George Eliot, George Gissing, John Ruskin, Edith Simcox and Gerard Manley Hopkins, the exposure or publication of their diaries was a real possibility that they either coveted or feared. Millim locates the diary at the intersection of the public and private spheres to show that well-known writers and public figures of both sexes exploited the diary's self-reflexive, diurnal structure in order to enhance their creativity and establish themselves as authors. Their object was to manage, rather than to indulge or repress, their emotions for the purposes of perfecting their observational and critical skills. Reading these diaries as literary works in their own right, Millim analyses their crucial role in the construction of authorship. By relating these Victorian writers' diaries to their publications and to contemporary works of cultural criticism, Millim shows the multifarious ways in which diaristic practices, emotional management and professional output corresponded to experiences of the literary marketplace and to nineteenth-century codes of propriety.

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1472402863

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Book's by Dr Catherine Delafield

Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines

Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines

Literary Theology by Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century

Literary Theology by Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century

Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction

Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction

The Victorian Diary

The Victorian Diary

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