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Book Title
Readers and Mistresses : Kept Women in Victorian Literature
ISBN
9781526176479

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Manchester University Press
ISBN-10
1526176475
ISBN-13
9781526176479
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24064605680

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
232 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Readers and Mistresses : Kept Women in Victorian Literature
Subject
Subjects & Themes / Women, Gender Studies, Modern / 19th Century
Publication Year
2024
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Social Science
Author
Katie R. Peel
Series
Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
14.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.4 in

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Intended Audience
College Audience
Reviews
'Readers and Mistresses is a valuable addition to criticism of the Victorian novel. It will be of interest to gender theorists and cultural historians as well as literary scholars, and fits perfectly into its series as one of Manchester's 'Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century.' Simon Cooke, Victorian Web
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
820.9928709034
Table Of Content
Introduction: '"I am my own mistress"': Kept women in Victorian literature 1 Old, particular, fallen, mustachioed, and queer: Other kept women 2 The women who did (and the men who did not) 3 Wives and mistresses in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 4 Marian Evans' story: The kept woman in Daniel Deronda 5 Near mis(tres)ses: Narrative potential v. dead ends Conclusion: 'Conventionality is not morality' References Index
Synopsis
Part recovery and part new reading method, this work locates the few kept mistresses in Victorian literature, while offering a queer way to read for their existences when less legible. This book offers a way to read old material with new eyes and a social justice ethic., Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature identifies kept mistresses in British Victorian narrative and offers ways to understand their experiences. The author discusses kept women characters in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and Ruth, Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and examines the methods their authors use to encourage reader empathy. This book also usefully demonstrates how to identify kept women when they are less visible in texts, including in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Dickens' Hard Times and Dombey and Son, and George Gissing's The Odd Women., Readers and mistresses: Kept women in Victorian literature identifies kept mistresses in British Victorian narrative and offers ways to understand their experiences. The author discusses kept women characters in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist , Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and Ruth , Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and examines the methods their authors use to encourage reader empathy. This book also usefully demonstrates how to identify kept women when they are less visible in texts, including in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre , Dickens' Hard Times and Dombey and Son , and George Gissing's The Odd Women .
LC Classification Number
PR468.W6P4 2024

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