Widening The Sphere: Mid-To-Late Victorian Popular Fiction, Gender Representation,And Canonicity (Writers And Their Contexts)

This work addresses the erasure of popular women writers in the formation of Victorian studies. Mid-century critical work on the Victorian novel, which established a long-standing canon, was mainly concerned with the form of the novel rather than the literature of the Victorian period. Particularly overlooked were the popular works produced by women writers in sensation fiction, New Woman fiction, and speculative fiction. The absence of these writers and genres created an incomplete picture of women's writing, and served to reinforce assumptions about gender roles and gendered space in Victorian literature and culture. / By combining the history of Victorian fiction with readings of representative writers, this new work presents an invaluable and fuller understanding of the scope of Victorian authorship and the representation of female characters.

• | Author: Anna J. Brecke
• | Publisher: Edward Everett Root
• | Publication Date: Sep 10, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 191511506X
• | ISBN-13: 9781915115065