This edited book provides a unique opportunity for international scholars to contribute to the exploration of liminality in the field of Anglo-American literature written by or about women between the Victorian period and the Second World War.
Daftar Isi
INTRODUCTION PART I: NEW WOMEN, OLD PATTERNS 1. ‘Nobody’s child must sleep under Somebody’s roof – and why not yours?’: Adventures of the Female Ego in Dickens, George Meredith’s The Egoist and Wilkie Collins’s No Name; Shannon Russell 2. ‘Dangerous Domestic Secrets’ on Trial in The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins; Janet Stobbs Wright 3. ‘Running on lines’: Women and the Railway in Victorian and early Modernist Culture; Anna Despotopoulou 4. Stepping Out: ‘At Home’ or ‘From our Own Correspondent’? The Lady Writer or the Woman Journalist?; Valerie Fehlbaum PART II: THE CALL OF THE WILD 5. ‘I write the truth as I see it:’ Unsettling the Boundaries of Gender, Travel Writing and Ethnography in Isabella Bird’s Unbeaten Tracks in Japan; Daniela Kato 6. Early Women Mountaineers Achieve Both Summits and Publication in Britain and America; Terry Gifford 7. Racing to the Front: Auto-mobility and Competing Narratives of Women in the First World War; Teresa Gómez Reus PART III: REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES 8. ‘Always Coming and Going’: The In-Between Spaces of Elizabeth Bowen’s Early Novels; Emma Short 9. Moving Back to ‘Home’ and ‘Nation’: Women Dramatists, 1938-1945; Rebecca D’Monté 10. Spatial Parody, Theatricalisation and Constructions of ‘Self’ in Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt and Carson Mc Cullers’ The Ballad of the Sad Café; Frances Piper 11. ‘Fritillary Fever’: Cultivating the Self and Gardening the World in the Writing of Clara Coltman Vyvyan; Niamh Downing
Tentang Penulis
Anna Despotopoulou, University of Athens, Greece Valerie Fehlbaum, University of Geneva, Switzerland Shannon Russell, John Cabot University in Rome, Italy Rebecca D’Monté, University of the West of England, UK Terry Gifford, University of Alicante, Spain Daniela Kato, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China Emma Short, Newcastle University, UK Frances Piper, University of Salford, UK Niamh Downing, University College Falmouth, UK Teresa Gómez Reus, University of Alicante, Spain Janet Stobbs Wright, University of CEU Cardenal Herrera in Elche, Spain
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