The women”s sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s were two major examples of a perceived feminine invasion of fiction which caused a critical furore in their day.
Both genres, with their shocking, `fast” heroines, fired the popular imagination by putting female sexuality on the literary agenda and undermining the `proper feminine” ideal to which nineteenth-century women and fictional heroines were supposed to aspire.
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Format PDF ● Pages 248 ● ISBN 9781134944835 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2003 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2649995 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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