The Feminine Political Novel in Victorian England

by Barbara Leah Harman

Overview

In this groundbreaking book, Barbara Leah Harman convincingly establishes a new category in Victorian fiction: the feminine political novel. By studying Victorian female protagonists who participate in the public universe conventionally occupied by men, she is able to reassess the public realm as the site of noble and meaningful action for women in Victorian England.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813929361
Publisher:	University of Virginia Press
Publication date:	05/10/2015
Series:	Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.25(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Barbara Leah Harman, Professor of English at Wellesley College, is the author of Costly Monuments: Representations of the Self in George Herbert's Poetry and coeditor of The New Nineteenth Century: Feminist Readings of Underread Victorian Fiction.

Editorial Reviews

Harman (English, Wellesley College) establishes the feminine political novel as a new category in Victorian fiction, studying Victorian female protagonists who participate in the public world conventionally occupied by men to reassess the public realm as the site of noble and meaningful action for women of Victorian England. She analyzes novels by five authors in relation to each other and to developments in the emerging British women's movement, and argues that these texts constitute a countertradition in Victorian fiction, drawing on historical material related to female higher education, the law of coverture, and the suffrage movement. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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