Protest and Reform: The British Social Narrative by Women, 1827-1867University of Wisconsin Press, 1985 - 242 páginas The social novel in nineteenth-century Britain has been considered the effort of a predominantly male canon of writers. In this ground-breaking study, Joseph Kestner challenges that assumption, arguing that it was a succession of female writers--women often meriting only a footnote in literary history--who initiated and advanced the tradition using narrative fiction to register protest, expose abuses, and promote reform. |
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... nature of this in- tervention , moral or physical or both , and its extent . The growth of population made this intervention imperative . The population of England and Wales in 1780 was 7.5 million ; by 1801 , it was 9 million , and ...
... nature , admitted only in rare exceptions , that the quali- ties of the ancestors should be transmitted to the race , the fact seems patent enough , that even allowing equal advantages , a gentleman's son has more chances of growing up ...
... nature of things ; and the little shop must perish- ' tis their nature too . We but lament this sad truth , that on God's earth , which God made for all , there should be so little room for the poor man ; for his pride , his ambi- tion ...
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Protest and Reform: The British Social Narrative by Women, 1827-1867 Joseph A. Kestner Vista previa restringida - 1985 |
Protest and Reform: The British Social Narrative by Women 1827–1867 Joseph Kestner Vista previa restringida - 2022 |
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Subversive Heroines: Feminist Resolutions of Social Crisis in the Condition ... Constance D. Harsh Vista de fragmentos - 1994 |
Vocational Philanthropy and British Women's Writing, 1790-1810 ... Patricia Comitini No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2005 |