Yesterday's woman : domestic realism in the English novel /
Colby, Vineta,
Yesterday's woman : domestic realism in the English novel / Vineta Colby. - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)1974. - 1 online resource (279 pages). - Princeton Legacy Library .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Encouraged by the response of the avid novel-reading public in early nineteenth-century England, minor novelists produced a staggering number of volumes that shaped styles, formed attitudes, and gave to the novel a new status and respectability. These novels were read by both sexes, but the majority were written by women. Vineta Colby examines the works of such minor novelists as Mrs. Gore, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Yonge, and Harriet Martincau, arguing that they prepared the way for the novels of the great Victorian era. Antiromantic and bourgeois in spirit, these domestic novels were conc.
9781400872657
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Domestic fiction, English--History and criticism.
Realism in literature.
Women in literature.
Domestic fiction, English--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Realism in literature.
Women in literature.
Electronic Books.
PR871 / .Y478 1974
Yesterday's woman : domestic realism in the English novel / Vineta Colby. - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)1974. - 1 online resource (279 pages). - Princeton Legacy Library .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Encouraged by the response of the avid novel-reading public in early nineteenth-century England, minor novelists produced a staggering number of volumes that shaped styles, formed attitudes, and gave to the novel a new status and respectability. These novels were read by both sexes, but the majority were written by women. Vineta Colby examines the works of such minor novelists as Mrs. Gore, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Yonge, and Harriet Martincau, arguing that they prepared the way for the novels of the great Victorian era. Antiromantic and bourgeois in spirit, these domestic novels were conc.
9781400872657
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Domestic fiction, English--History and criticism.
Realism in literature.
Women in literature.
Domestic fiction, English--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Realism in literature.
Women in literature.
Electronic Books.
PR871 / .Y478 1974