The Late-Victorian Marriage Question: A Collection of Key New Woman Texts, in 5 Volumes: Vol. 1: Marriage and Motherhood; Vol. 2: The New Woman and Female Independence; Vol. 3: New Woman Fiction (1): Marriage, Motherhood and Work; Vol. 4: New Woman Fiction (2): Gender and Sexuality; Vol. 5: Literary Degenerates

Heilmann, Ann

ISBN 10: 0415179432 / ISBN 13: 9780415179430

Published by Routledge / Thoemmes Press, 1999

About this Item

No jackets. Smudge along bottom edge of front board of volume 5. 1999 Hard Cover. Five volume set, providing an interesting mix of nineteenth century accounts and modern scholarship. "This anthology contextualizes key feminist texts and ideas by linking them with the transformation of public opinion brought about by the late Victorian debate on marriage, motherhood and women's right to an independent life. Included are Mona Caird's controversial The Morality of Marriage; debates between feminists, traditionalists and anti-feminists on marriage, divorce and the New Woman, and selected reading from New Woman fiction, both feminist and anti-feminist, which reproduces the media debate on morality in literature.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Late-Victorian Marriage Question: A Collection of Key New Woman Texts, in 5 Volumes: Vol. 1: Marriage and Motherhood; Vol. 2: The New Woman and Female Independence; Vol. 3: New Woman Fiction (1): Marriage, Motherhood and Work; Vol. 4: New Woman Fiction (2): Gender and Sexuality; Vol. 5: Literary Degenerates
• Publisher: Routledge / Thoemmes Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415179432
• ISBN 13: 9780415179430
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 162 ounces

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Synopsis

This anthology contextualizes key feminist texts and ideas by linking them with the transformation of public opinion brought about by the late Victorian debate on marriage, motherhood and women's right to an independent life.
Included are Mona Caird's controversial The Morality of Marriage; debates between feminists, traditionalists and anti-feminists on marriage, divorce and the New Woman, and selected reading from New Woman fiction, both feminist and anti-feminist, which reproduces the media debate on morality in literature.

Review

'Ann Heilmann's five volume collection of late nineteenth-century primary texts is a labour of love, and will be indispensable for researchers in this area; more than its title suggests, it is an emporium of materials central to Victorian culture, literature and social and sexual politics.' - Journal of Victorian Culture

'Indispensable for libraries, it is a vital resource for students and scholars of late nineteenth-century social and literary history, opening up new and exciting directions for research, and allowing New Women to speak, after a long silence, in audible and unmediated voices.' - Journal of Victorian Culture