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Educating Women: Cultural Conflict and Victorian Literature
Laura Morgan Green
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Hardback. This work analyzes the conflict between the higher education movement's emphasis on intellectual achievement and the Victorian novel's continuing dedication to a narrative in which women's success is measured by the achievement of emotional rather than intellectual goals. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 458. Weight in Grams: 426.
In 1837, when Queen Victoria came to the throne, no institution of higher education in Britain was open to women. By the end of the century, a quiet revolution had occurred: women had penetrated even the venerable walls of Oxford and Cambridge and could earn degrees at the many new universities founded during Victoria’s reign. During the same period, novelists increasingly put intellectually ambitious heroines students, teachers, and frustrated scholars—at the center of their books. Educating Women analyzes the conflict between the higher education movement’s emphasis on intellectual and professional achievement and the Victorian novel’s continuing dedication to a narrative ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
166
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821414026
SKU
V9780821414026
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99-1
About Laura Morgan Green
Laura Morgan Green is an assistant professor in the English department at Northeastern University. She has published articles on Thomas Hardy and George Eliot and has also written for Salon.com and Poets and Writers magazine.
Reviews for Educating Women: Cultural Conflict and Victorian Literature
Laura Green's generous intelligence and literary sensibility mark every turn taken by these alert readings. Tracing the lines of stress shot through women's educational reform by both domestic ideology and liberal individualism, this study of Victorian fiction is itself an education.
editor of Victorian Studies
Educating Women offers insights into gender ideologies in Victorian England and into the ... Read more
editor of Victorian Studies
Educating Women offers insights into gender ideologies in Victorian England and into the ... Read more