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British Women Writers and the Short Story, 1850-1930
Kate Krueger
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Description for British Women Writers and the Short Story, 1850-1930
Paperback. This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gender and social space. Their innovative short stories ask Britons to reconsider where women could live, how they could be identified, and whether they could be contained. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gender and social space. Their innovative short stories ask Britons to reconsider where women could live, how they could be identified, and whether they could be contained.
This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gender and social space. Their innovative short stories ask Britons to reconsider where women could live, how they could be identified, and whether they could be contained.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349471461
SKU
V9781349471461
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Ref
99-15
About Kate Krueger
Kate Krueger is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Women and Gender Studies at Arkansas State University, USA, specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature. She has previously published on the short fiction of Virginia Woolf, George Egerton, Charlotte Mew, and Evelyn Sharp.
Reviews for British Women Writers and the Short Story, 1850-1930
“Kate Krueger’s British Women Writers and the Short Story addresses women writers’ use of social space in two key ways: the social space of the short story itself, which Krueger reads as an apt political space for women writers; and physical spaces, ranging from drawing rooms to city streets to colonial outposts. … Throughout, Krueger offers detailed readings that are ... Read more