New Woman Fiction: Women Writing First-Wave Feminism

Heilmann, A.

The New Woman was the symbol of the shifting categories of gender and sexuality and epitomised the spirit of the fin de siècle . This informative monograph offers an interdisciplinary approach to the growing field of New Woman studies by exploring the relationship between first-wave feminist literature, the nineteenth-century women's movement and female consumer culture. The book expertly places the debate about femininity, feminism and fiction in its cultural and socio-historical context, examining New Woman fiction as a genre whose emerging theoretical discourse prefigured concepts central to second-wave feminist theory.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2000-11-16

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780312236274

DOI: 10.1057/9780230288355

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 221