Eve's Renegades: Victorian Anti-Feminist Women Novelists

Sanders, Valerie

This study focuses on the work of four Victorian anti-feminist women writers - Eliza Lynn Linton, Charlotte M. Yonge, Mrs Humphry Ward, and Margaret Oliphant - examining their self-contradictory responses to the debate about women's role in family life and society. Individual chapters review women's anti-feminism from 1792-1850, and fresh readings of their best-known novels emphasize the inconsistencies of their masculine and feminine ideals.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1996-10-03

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780333663134

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-24935-0

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 249