Middlebrow and gender, 1890-1945 / edited by Christoph Ehland, Cornelia Wachter.

Other author Ehland, Christoph.
Other author Wachter, Cornelia.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2016]
Descriptionx, 273 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
English fiction--Women authors. --History and criticism.
English fiction--20th century. --History and criticism.
English fiction--19th century. --History and criticism.
Women's periodicals, English--History. --19th century.
Popular literature--Great Britain. --History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Women heroes in literature.

SeriesDQR studies in literature ; volume 62
Contents Introduction: All Granite, Fog and Female Fiction / Christoph Ehland and Cornelia Wachter -- Contact Zones. The Short Fiction of New Woman Writers in Avant-Garde, Mainstream, and Popular Periodicals of the Fin de Siecle / Stephanie Eggermont and Elke D'hoker -- Modernism and the Middlebrow in British Women's Magazines, 1916-1930-39 / Alice Wood -- Gender, Disability, Wartime: The Woman's Body and the Disabled Ex-Serviceman in the First World War / Kate Macdonald -- Complementary Cousins: Constructing the Maternal in the Writing of Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield / Isobel Maddison -- Heroics of the Everyday. Middlebrow "Everyman" or Modernist Figurehead? Experiencing Modernity through the Eyes of the Humble Clerk / Nicola Bishop -- "The Heroine of a Modern Sea Epic": The New Woman Adventuress in Grant Allen's The Type-Writer Girl / Tara MacDonald -- Adventures of the Lady Typist: Redefining the Heroic in Early Twentieth-Century Women's Spy Fiction / Emma Grundy Haigh -- Gender, Sexuality, and the Management of Anxiety. Clemence Dane's Fantastical Fiction and Feminist Consciousness / Louise McDonald -- The Painted Veil: Re-Inventing the Colonial Woman and the Hinterland Narrative / Wendy Gan -- Victoria Cross' Six Chapters of a Man's Life: Queering Middlebrow Feminism / Petra Dierkes-Thrun -- Middlebrow Negotiations of Lawrentian Sexuality in Una Silberrad's Desire / Cornelia Wachter -- "Ordinary" Sexuality, the "Dirty Little Secret" and the Indecent Highbrow Modernist: Sexuality in Married Love and Lady Chatterley's Lover / Ann Rea.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2015049386
ISBN9789004313361 (hardcover : alk. paper)