Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850-1900 Girls and the Transition to Womanhood

Name: Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850-1900 Girls and the Transition to Womanhood
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ISBN: 9780199272617

ISBN-10: 0199272611

ISBN-13: 9780199272617

Edition: 2004

Authors: Sarah Bilston

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This book demonstrates that 'the awkward age' formed a fault-line in Victorian female experience, an unusual phase in which restlessness, self-interest, and rebellion were possible. Tracing evolving treatments of female adolescence though a host of long-forgotten women's fictions, the book reveals that representations of the girl in popular women's literature importantly anticipated depictions of the feminist in the fin de sicle New Woman writing; conservative portrayals ofgirls' hopes, dreams, and subsequent frustrations helped clear a literary and cultural space for the New Woman's 'awakening' to disaffected consciousness. The book thus both historicises the evolution and mythic appeal of…

Book details

List price: $180.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/30/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.71" wide x 8.78" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English




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