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The "Improper" Feminine: The Women's Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing

by Lyn Pykett

Pages: 238

Contributors: Lyn Pykett

Publisher: Routledge

Place of Publication: New York

Publication Year: 1992

Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

Introductory Note

Part I: The ‘Improper’ Feminine

1: Gender and Writing, Writing and Gender

2: The Subject of Woman

3: The Subject of Woman and the Subject of Women’s Fiction

4: Fiction and the Feminine: a Gendered Critical Discourse

5: Fiction, the Feminine and the Sensation Novel

6: Representation and the Feminine Engendering Fiction in the 1890s

Part II: The Sentimental and Sensational Sixties: The Limits of the Proper Feminine

7: Historicising Genre (1): The Cultural Moment of the Woman’s Sensation Novel

8: Surveillance and Control: Women, the Family and the Law

9: Spectating the Social Evil: Fallen and Other Women

10: Reviewing the Subject of Women: The Sensation Novel and the ‘Girl of the Period’

11: Historicising Genre (2): Sensation Fiction, Women’s Genres and Popular Narrative Forms

12: Mary Elizabeth Braddon: The Secret Histories of Women

13: Ellen Wood: Secret Skeletons in the Family, and the Spectacle of Women’s Suffering

Part III: Breaking the Bounds: The Improper Feminine and the Fiction of the New Woman

14: The New Woman

15: The New Woman Writing and Some Marriage Questions

16: Writing Difference Differently

17: Feeling, Motherhood and True Womanhood

18: Woman’s ‘Affectability’ and the Literature of Hysteria

19: Writing Women: Writing Woman

20: New Woman: New Writing

Conclusion: Reading out Women’s Writing

Notes

Part III

Works Referred to

Works First Published after 1900

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