The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing

Linda H. Peterson

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781107064843
• eBook ISBN: 9781316390948
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing brings together chapters by leading scholars to provide innovative and comprehensive coverage of Victorian women writers' careers and literary achievements. While incorporating the scholarly insights of modern feminist criticism, it also reflects new approaches to women authors that have emerged with the rise of book history; periodical studies; performance studies; postcolonial studies; and scholarship on authorship, readership, and publishing. It traces the Victorian woman writer's career - from making her debut to working with publishers and editors to achieving literary fame - and challenges previous thinking about genres in which women contributed with success. Chapters on poetry, including a discussion of poetry in colonial and imperial contexts, reveal women's engagements with each other and male writers. Discussions on drama, life writing, reviewing, history, travel writing, and children's literature uncover the remarkable achievement of women in fields relatively unknown.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Chronology of publications and events
• Introduction: Victorian women’s writing and modern literary criticism
• Part I Victorian women writers’ careers
• Part II Victorian women writers’ achievements:genres and modes
• Guide to further reading
• Index
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