Victorian heroines : representations of femininity in nineteenth-century literature and art / Kimberley Reynolds and Nicola Humble
1993, 1st edition. New York : New York University Press. Fine cloth copy, gilt-blocked title to spine. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #386872
Physical description; x, 195 pp. 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 -- 1. Purity or danger : sexuality and the development of the Victorian girl -- 2: The old woman in new clothes? : sexual and body politics post-1848 -- 3. Sightless seers : decadence and representations of femininity – 4. Strange sensations : the aberrant heroines of sensation fiction – 5. Private ‘I’s and ‘I’-lessness : autobiographical constructions of the feminine self. Subjects; English literature 19th century History and criticism. Women and literature Great Britain History 19th century. Femininity in literature. Human body. Heroines. Art, Victorian.
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