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Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century Ser.: Readers and Mistresses : Kept Women in Victorian Literature by Katie R. Peel (2024, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherManchester University Press

ISBN-101526176475

ISBN-139781526176479

eBay Product ID (ePID)24064605680

Product Key Features

Number of Pages232 Pages

Publication NameReaders and Mistresses : Kept Women in Victorian Literature

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

SubjectSubjects & Themes / Women, Gender Studies, Modern / 19th Century

TypeTextbook

AuthorKatie R. Peel

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science

SeriesInterventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight14.7 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Reviews'Readers and Mistresses is a valuable addition to criticism of the Victorian novel. It will be of interest to gender theorists and cultural historians as well as literary scholars, and fits perfectly into its series as one of Manchester's 'Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century.' Simon Cooke, Victorian Web

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal820.9928709034

Table Of ContentIntroduction: '"I am my own mistress"': Kept women in Victorian literature 1 Old, particular, fallen, mustachioed, and queer: Other kept women 2 The women who did (and the men who did not) 3 Wives and mistresses in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 4 Marian Evans' story: The kept woman in Daniel Deronda 5 Near mis(tres)ses: Narrative potential v. dead ends Conclusion: 'Conventionality is not morality' References Index

SynopsisPart recovery and part new reading method, this work locates the few kept mistresses in Victorian literature, while offering a queer way to read for their existences when less legible. This book offers a way to read old material with new eyes and a social justice ethic., Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature identifies kept mistresses in British Victorian narrative and offers ways to understand their experiences. The author discusses kept women characters in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and Ruth, Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and examines the methods their authors use to encourage reader empathy. This book also usefully demonstrates how to identify kept women when they are less visible in texts, including in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Dickens' Hard Times and Dombey and Son, and George Gissing's The Odd Women., Readers and mistresses: Kept women in Victorian literature identifies kept mistresses in British Victorian narrative and offers ways to understand their experiences. The author discusses kept women characters in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist , Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and Ruth , Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and examines the methods their authors use to encourage reader empathy. This book also usefully demonstrates how to identify kept women when they are less visible in texts, including in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre , Dickens' Hard Times and Dombey and Son , and George Gissing's The Odd Women .

LC Classification NumberPR468.W6P4 2024