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Gender Studies

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Victorian Bestseller

The Life of Dinah Craik

By Karen Bourrier
Subjects: Biography, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Disability Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, British and Irish Literatures

An engaging, rigorously researched biography of popular 19th century novelist Dinah Craik
 

The Measure of Manliness

Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel

By Karen Bourrier
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Sheds new light on the narrative importance of the disabled man in Victorian literature and culture

Framed

The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siecle

By Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

By introducing us to the New Woman Criminal, Framed offers a profoundly different view of the fin de siècle British crime narrative

Susan Glaspell

Essays on Her Theater and Fiction

Edited by Linda Ben-Zvi
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, 19th Century Literature
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

The first book-length critical assessment of American playwright and fiction writer Susan Glaspell

Dear Munificent Friends

Henry James's Letters to Four Women

Edited by Susan E. Gunter
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Previously unpublished letters that shed light on the personal side of Henry James, and on the times in which he lived and wrote

The Animal Within

Masculinity and the Gothic

By Cyndy Hendershot
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

Explores notions of masculinity in Gothic film and fiction

Animal Advocacy and Englishwomen, 1780-1900

Patriots, Nation, and Empire

By Moira Ferguson
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies

What Black Beauty and other books by women of this period reveal about their notions of nation, identity, and empire

Starting Over

Feminism and the Politics of Cultural Critique

By Judith Newton
Subjects: Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory

Explores the relationships among cultural criticism, materialist feminist criticism, and mainstream feminist work

The Daughter's Dilemma

Family Process and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel

By Paula Marantz Cohen
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, 19th Century Literature

An interdisciplinary investigation into the daughter's role in 19th-century families and their fictional representations.

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