This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gender and social space. Their innovative short stories ask Britons to reconsider where women could live, how they could be identified, and whether they could be contained.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: K. Krueger
EAN: 9781137359230
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 4434 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-03-28
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GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
English, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
“Kate Krueger’s British
Women Writers and the Short Story addresses women writers’ use of social space
in two key ways: the social space of the short story itself, which Krueger
reads as an apt political space for women writers; and physical spaces, ranging
from drawing rooms to city streets to colonial outposts. … Throughout, Krueger
offers detailed readings that are attentive to each text’s periodical print
context, and this is a real strength of the volume.” (Sigrid Anderson Cordell,
Sharp News, Vol. 24 (4), 2015)"Wide-ranging, incisive and thoroughly readable, this will be essential reading for anyone interested in women writers' contribution to the short story tradition." - Ailsa Cox, Edgehill University, UK
Kate Krueger is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Women and Gender Studies at Arkansas State University, USA, specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature. She has previously published on the short fiction of Virginia Woolf, George Egerton, Charlotte Mew, and Evelyn Sharp.
