Overview
A cultural icon of the fin de siècle, the New Woman was not one figure, but several. In the guise of a bicycling, cigarette-smoking Amazon, the New Woman romped through the pages of Punch and popular fiction; as a neurasthenic victim of social oppression, she suffered in the pages of New Woman novels such as Sarah Grand's hugely successful The Heavenly Twins . The New Woman in Fiction and Fact marks a radically new departure in nineteenth-century scholarship to explore the polyvocal nature of the late Victorian debates around gender, motherhood, class, race and imperialism which converged in the name of the New Woman.
- | Author: A. Richardson
- | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- | Publication Date: Dec 20, 2000
- | Number of Pages: 258 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0333990455
- | ISBN-13: 9780333990452
