Yesterday's woman : domestic realism in the English novel /
Encouraged by the response of the avid novel-reading public in early nineteenth-century England, minor novelists produced a staggering number of volumes that shaped styles, formed attitudes, and gave to the novel a new status and respectability. These novels were read by both sexes, but the majority...
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2015]
Princeton, New Jersey : 1974 |
| Series: | Princeton legacy library ;
1259 Princeton legacy library |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Conclusion
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Ut Pictura Poesis: The Novel of Domestic Realism as Genre
- 2. Manners, Morals, and Maneuvering Matrons: Mrs. Gore and the Fashionable Novel
- 3. The Education of the Heart: Maria Edgeworth and Some Sister-Teachers
- 4. The Victorian "Ayenbite of Inwyt": The Evangelical Novel from Charlotte Elizabeth to Charlotte Yonge
- 5. Domestic Devotion and Hearthside Heroism: Harriet Martineau's Deerbrooh. and The Novel of Community
- Conclusion
- Index