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The Awkward Age In Womens Popular Fiction 1850 1900
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Book Synopsis The Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850-1900 by : Sarah Bilston
Download or read book The Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850-1900 written by Sarah Bilston and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bilston investigates how writers portrayed female adolescence and discusses why women authors so often centred on adolescent heroines. She considers how representations of the turbulent, disaffected adolescent laid the foundation for the feminist New Woman heroine at the end of the 19th century.
Book Synopsis The Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850 - 1900 by : Sarah Bilston
Download or read book The Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850 - 1900 written by Sarah Bilston and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Awkward Age written by Sarah Bilston and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mobility and Modernity in Women's Novels, 1850s-1930s by : W. Parkins
Download or read book Mobility and Modernity in Women's Novels, 1850s-1930s written by W. Parkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing novels by women writers from the 1850s to the 1930s, this book argues that representations of mobility offer a fruitful way to explore the location of women within modernity and, specifically, the opportunities for (or limitations on) women's agency in this period, considering the mobility of the female subject in the city and beyond.
Book Synopsis Constructions of the Irish Child in the Independence Period, 1910-1940 by : Ciara Boylan
Download or read book Constructions of the Irish Child in the Independence Period, 1910-1940 written by Ciara Boylan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how Irish children were ‘constructed’ by various actors including the state, youth organisations, authors and publishers in the period before and after Ireland gained independence in 1922. It examines the broad variety of ways in which the Irish child was constructed through social and cultural activities like education, sport, youth organizations, and cultural production such as literature, toys, and clothes, covering themes ranging from gender, religion and social class, to the broader politics of identity, citizenship, and nation-building. A variety of ideals and ideologies, some of them conflicting, competed to inform how children were constructed by the adults who looked on them as embodying the future of the nation. Contributors ask fundamental questions about how children were constructed as part of the idealisation of the state before its formation, and the consolidation of the state after its foundation.
Book Synopsis Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915 by : Kristine Moruzi
Download or read book Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915 written by Kristine Moruzi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on six popular British girls' periodicals, Kristine Moruzi explores the debate about the shifting nature of Victorian girlhood between 1850 and 1915. During an era of significant political, social, and economic change, girls' periodicals demonstrate the difficulties of fashioning a coherent, consistent model of girlhood. The mixed-genre format of these magazines, Moruzi suggests, allowed inconsistencies and tensions between competing feminine ideals to exist within the same publication. Adopting a case study approach, Moruzi shows that the Monthly Packet, the Girl of the Period Miscellany, the Girl's Own Paper, Atalanta, the Young Woman, and the Girl's Realm each attempted to define and refine a unique type of girl, particularly the religious girl, the 'Girl of the Period,' the healthy girl, the educated girl, the marrying girl, and the modern girl. These periodicals reflected the challenges of embracing the changing conditions of girls' lives while also attempting to maintain traditional feminine ideals of purity and morality. By analyzing the competing discourses within girls' periodicals, Moruzi's book demonstrates how they were able to frame feminine behaviour in ways that both reinforced and redefined the changing role of girls in nineteenth-century society while also allowing girl readers the opportunity to respond to these definitions.
Book Synopsis Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850-1950 by : Charles Ferrall
Download or read book Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850-1950 written by Charles Ferrall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Charles Ferrall and Anna Jackson argue that the Victorians created a concept of adolescence that lasted into the twentieth century and yet is strikingly at odds with post-Second World War notions of adolescence as a period of "storm and stress." In the enormously popular "juvenile" literature of the period, primarily boys’ and girls’ own adventure and school stories, adolescence is acknowledged as a time of sexual awareness and yet also of a romantic idealism that is lost with marriage, a time when boys and girls acquire adult duties and responsibilities and yet have not had to assume the roles of breadwinner or household manager. The book reveals a concept of adolescence as significant as the Romantic cult of childhood that preceded it, which will be of interest to scholars of both children’s literature and Victorian culture.
Book Synopsis Adolescence in Modern Irish History by : Catherine Cox
Download or read book Adolescence in Modern Irish History written by Catherine Cox and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection is the first to address the topic of adolescence in Irish history. It brings together established and emerging scholars to examine the experience of Irish young adults from the 'affective revolution' of the early nineteenth century to the emergence of the teenager in the 1960s.
Book Synopsis Adolescent Girlhood and Literary Culture at the Fin de Siècle by : Beth Rodgers
Download or read book Adolescent Girlhood and Literary Culture at the Fin de Siècle written by Beth Rodgers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the construction of adolescent girlhood across a range of genres in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. It argues that there was a preoccupation with defining, characterising and naming adolescent girlhood at the fin de siècle. These ‘daughters of today’, ‘juvenile spinsters’ and ‘modern girls’, as the press variously termed them, occupying a borderland between childhood and womanhood, were seen to be inextricably connected to late nineteenth-century modernity: they were the products of changes taking place in education and employment and of the challenge to traditional conceptions of femininity presented by the Woman Question. The author argues that the shifting nature of the modern adolescent girl made her a malleable cultural figure, and a meeting point for many of the prevalent debates associated with fin-de-siècle society. By juxtaposing diverse material, from children’s books and girls’ magazines to New Woman novels and psychological studies, the author contextualises adolescent girlhood as a distinct but complex cultural category at the end of the nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2 by : Adrienne E. Gavin
Download or read book British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2 written by Adrienne E. Gavin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840–1940, historicallycontextualizes and traces developments in women’s fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessingboth canonical and lesser-known British women’s writing decade by decade, it redefines the landscapeof women’s authorship across a century of dynamic social and cultural change. With each ofits volumes devoted to two decades, the series is wide in scope but historically sharply defined. Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s continues the series by historically and culturally contextualizing Victorianwomen’s writing distinctly within the 1860s and 1870s. Covering a range of fictional approaches,including short stories, religiously inflected novels, and comic writing the volume’s 16 original essaysconsider such developments as the sensation craze, the impact of new technologies, and the careeropportunities opening for women. Centrally, it reassesses key nineteenth-century female authors inthe context in which they first published while also recovering neglected women writers who helpedto shape the literary landscape of the 1860s and 1870s.
Book Synopsis Male Adolescence in Mid-Victorian Fiction by : Alice Crossley
Download or read book Male Adolescence in Mid-Victorian Fiction written by Alice Crossley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on works by George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope, Alice Crossley examines the emergence of adolescence in the mid-Victorian period as a distinct form of experience. Adolescence, Crossley shows, appears as a discrete category of identity that draws on but is nonetheless distinguishable from other masculine types. Important more as a stage of psychological awareness and maturation than as a period of biological youth, Crossley argues that the plasticity of male adolescence provides Meredith, Thackeray, and Trollope with opportunities for self-reflection and social criticism while also working as a paradigm for narrative and imaginative inquiry about motivation, egotism, emotional and physical relationships, and the possibilities of self-creation. Adolescence emerges as a crucial stage of individual growth, adopted by these authors in order to reflect more fully on cultural and personal anxieties about manliness. The centrality of male youth in these authors’ novels, Crossley demonstrates, repositions age-consciousness as an integral part of nineteenth-century debates about masculine heterogeneity.
Book Synopsis Female Adolescence in American Scientific Thought, 1830–1930 by : Crista DeLuzio
Download or read book Female Adolescence in American Scientific Thought, 1830–1930 written by Crista DeLuzio and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-08-13 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Book Synopsis The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture by : Dennis Denisoff
Download or read book The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture written by Dennis Denisoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the rise of consumer culture in the nineteenth century, children and childhood were called on to fulfill a range of important roles. In addition to being consumers themselves, the young functioned as both 'goods' to be used and consumed by adults and as proof that middle-class materialist ventures were assisting in the formation of a more ethical society. Children also provided necessary labor and raw material for industry. This diverse collection addresses the roles assigned to children in the context of nineteenth-century consumer culture, at the same time that it remains steadfast in recognizing that the young did not simply exist within adult-articulated cultural contexts but were agents in their formation. Topics include toys and middle-class childhood; boyhood and toy theater; child performers on the Victorian stage; gender, sexuality and consumerism; imperialism in adventure fiction; the idealization of childhood as a form of adult entertainment and self-flattery; the commercialization of orphans; and the economics behind formulations of child poverty. Together, the essays demonstrate the rising investment both children and adults made in commodities as sources of identity and human worth.
Book Synopsis Making Youth: A History of Youth in Modern Britain by : Melanie Tebbutt
Download or read book Making Youth: A History of Youth in Modern Britain written by Melanie Tebbutt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Urbanisation and industrialisation brought challenges that altered how young people were both perceived and understood. As adults found it difficult to comprehend the rapidity of societal change, focus on the young intensified, and they became a symbol of uncertainty about the future. Highlighting both change and striking continuity, Melanie Tebbutt traces the origins and development of key themes and debates in the history of modern British youth. Current issues such as the ageing of western societies, high levels of youth unemployment and the potential for social and political unrest make this a timely study.
Book Synopsis A History of the Girl by : Mary O'Dowd
Download or read book A History of the Girl written by Mary O'Dowd and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is centered on the history of the girl from the medieval period through to the early twenty-first century. Authored by an international team of scholars, the volume explores the transition from adolescent girlhood to young womanhood, the formation and education of girls in the home and in school, and paid work undertaken by girls in different parts of the world and at different times. It highlights the value of a comparative approach to the history of the girl, as the contributors point to shared attitudes to girlhood and the similarity of the experiences of girls in workplaces across the world. Contributions to the volume also emphasise the central role of girls in the global economy, from their participation in the textile industry in the eighteenth century, through to the migration of girls to urban centres in twentieth-century Africa and China.
Book Synopsis Victorian Women Writers and the Classics by : Isobel Hurst
Download or read book Victorian Women Writers and the Classics written by Isobel Hurst and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this study, Isobel Hurst brings together two lines of enquiry in recent criticism: the Romantic and Victorian reception of ancient Greece and Rome, and women as writers and readers in the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis New Literatures of Old by : Dídac Llorens-Cubedo
Download or read book New Literatures of Old written by Dídac Llorens-Cubedo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artistic creativity is fuelled by the permanent interaction among artistic forms, cultures, societies, and eventually different individuals, in the form of an all-inclusive intertextuality. The dialogues between the past and the present help the artist examine his own art, making him conscious of his position in the field, whether through self-evaluation, renewal or experiment with new textualities. This book explores how the strategies reflecting the exchanges between past and present modes of artistic production become active agents of intervention in creating the various spaces of dialogue and confrontation when establishing the identities and cultural specificity of a certain society or community.
