Add to ORKGpeer-reviewedIN TANDEM WITH the stirrings of first-wave feminism, the literary work of "New Woman"l writers came to the fore in the early 1890s. Replacing the Victorian "angel in the house", these writers depicted desires never realised in fiction before, and imagined worlds quite different from bourgeois patriarchy. Olive Schreiner's The Story ofan African Farm and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland are well-known examples of this genre today. The principles of this fiction included the abolition of hierarchical systems and an incisive understanding of the workings of ideological process. The triumph of the new woman figure is seen as effecting a liberation of the whole community, and of social relations in general in these fictio...
Looking back over the books read, the papers written, the piles of clippings, notes, scraps of paper...
Near the end of the nineteenth century, Sarah Grand coined the phrase "New Woman," which was influen...
This article examines George Egerton’s New Woman short story, “The Regeneration of Two”, from her 18...
peer-reviewedThe name of George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright) (1859–1945) became practicall...
peer-reviewedMonique Wittig, addressing ideological activism and social change at the end of the tw...
The last decade of the 19th century was a period of great cultural changes in Britain, and especiall...
Graduation date: 2000The two literary touchstones of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Willa Cather exami...
The concept of woman as having a distinctive nature and requiring a separate sphere of activity from...
...On Tuesday afternoon I attended a session entitled The Fragmented Ethnic Woman Writer, which in...
This essay reconsiders interpretations of Shakespeare by Irish writer Anna Murphy Jameson and the Am...
This is the text of the Forty-Fourth George Eliot Memorial Lecture delivered at the Chilvers Coton H...
George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne, 1859–1945), from Co. Laois, was the New Woman author most clos...
In this paper, I examine the forces at work in the formation of the canon of American Literature in...
George Egerton was the pen name of Mary Chavelita Dunne – a charismatic woman whose work foreshadowe...
As I began to make decisions about what I wanted to write on, I started to consider the novels that ...
Looking back over the books read, the papers written, the piles of clippings, notes, scraps of paper...
Near the end of the nineteenth century, Sarah Grand coined the phrase "New Woman," which was influen...
This article examines George Egerton’s New Woman short story, “The Regeneration of Two”, from her 18...
peer-reviewedThe name of George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright) (1859–1945) became practicall...
peer-reviewedMonique Wittig, addressing ideological activism and social change at the end of the tw...
The last decade of the 19th century was a period of great cultural changes in Britain, and especiall...
Graduation date: 2000The two literary touchstones of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Willa Cather exami...
The concept of woman as having a distinctive nature and requiring a separate sphere of activity from...
...On Tuesday afternoon I attended a session entitled The Fragmented Ethnic Woman Writer, which in...
This essay reconsiders interpretations of Shakespeare by Irish writer Anna Murphy Jameson and the Am...
This is the text of the Forty-Fourth George Eliot Memorial Lecture delivered at the Chilvers Coton H...
George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne, 1859–1945), from Co. Laois, was the New Woman author most clos...
In this paper, I examine the forces at work in the formation of the canon of American Literature in...
George Egerton was the pen name of Mary Chavelita Dunne – a charismatic woman whose work foreshadowe...
As I began to make decisions about what I wanted to write on, I started to consider the novels that ...
Looking back over the books read, the papers written, the piles of clippings, notes, scraps of paper...
Near the end of the nineteenth century, Sarah Grand coined the phrase "New Woman," which was influen...
This article examines George Egerton’s New Woman short story, “The Regeneration of Two”, from her 18...