Reviewing Sex

Gender and the Reception of Victorian Novels

von N. Thompson

164 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Reviewing Sex: Gender and the Reception of Victorian Novels looks at the influence of Victorian definitions of gender on the cultural processes of reading and canon formation in nineteenth-century England, examining the reception of several mid-century works in over 100 Victorian book reviews. This study investigates four canonical and popular novelists (Emily Bronte, Anthony Trollope, Charles Reade, Charlotte Yonge), all of whom caused high cultural commotions by epitomizing or subverting contemporary definitions of 'masculine' or 'feminine' writing.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• ISBN: 9780333622162
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.03.1996
• Größe: 216 x 138 mm
• Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK