Victorian heroines : representations of femininity in nineteenth-century literature and art / Kimberley Reynolds and Nicola Humble
1993, First Edition. New York : New York University Press. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #409180
ISBN: 0814773613
Physical description: x, 195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index. Contents: Introduction: All dipt in angel instincts: Victorian heroines and the feminine ideal, or, ideal no more -- Ch. 1. Purity or danger: Sexuality and the development of the Victorian girl -- Ch. 2. The old woman in new clothes?: Sexual and body politics post-1848 -- Ch. 3. Sightless seers: Decadence and representations of femininity -- Ch. 4. Strange sensations: The aberrant heroines of sensation fiction -- Ch. 5. Private 'I's and 'I'-lessness: Autobiographical constructions of the feminine self. Subjects: 1800-1899; English literature 19th century History and criticism; Women and literature Great Britain History 19th century; Femininity in literature; Human body in literature; Heroines in literature; Art, Victorian; Women in art.
Price: €18.00