Love and the woman question in Victorian literature : the art of self-postponement / Kathleen Blake
1983, First Edition. Brighton, Sussex Totowa, N.J. : Harvester Press ; Barnes & Noble Books. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #432133
ISBN: 0710805608
Physical description; xvii, 254 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-247) and index. Contents; Pt. 1. Feminine self-postponement : -- Christina Rossetti's poetry: the art of self-postponement -- Middlemarch: vocation, love and the woman question -- Villette: "How shall I keep well?" -- Pt. 2. Feminist self-postponement : -- The odd women: the "poor of spirit, the flesh prevailing" -- Feminist self-postponement in theory and literature -- Sue Bridehead: a woman of the feminist movement -- Pt. 3. Self-postponement and the woman artist : -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (and George Eliot): art versus love -- Olive Schreiner: art and the artist self-postponement. Subjects; Eliot, George 1819-1880. Middlemarch Criticism, interpretation, etc. Brontë, Charlotte 1816-1855. Villette Criticism, interpretation, etc. Villette (Brontë, Charlotte). Middlemarch (Eliot, George). 1800-1899. Geschichte 1800-1900. Geschichte 1837-1901. English literature 19th century History and criticism. Women in literature. Women in literature 19th century Criticism, interpretation, etc. Sex role in literature. Sex role in literature 19th century Criticism, interpretation, etc. Love in literature. Love in literature 19th century Criticism, interpretation, etc. Women artists in literature. Feminism and literature. Man-woman relationships Social aspects. Man-woman relationships Psychological aspects.
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