European University Institute Library

Women's human rights in nineteenth-century literature and culture, [edited by] Elena V. Shabliy, Dmitry Kurochkin, and Gloria Y.A. Ayee

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Women's human rights in nineteenth-century literature and culture

bibliography

1149363809

[edited by] Elena V. Shabliy, Dmitry Kurochkin, and Gloria Y.A. Ayee

Women's Human Rights in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture sheds light on women's rights advancements in the nineteenth century and early twentieth-century through explorations of literature and culture from this time period. With an international emphasis, contributors illuminate the range and diversity of women's work as novelists, journalists, and short story writers and analyze the New Woman phenomenon, feminist impulse, and the diversity of the women writers. Studying writing by authors such as Alice Meynell, Thomas Hardy, Netta Syrett, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Mary Seacole, Charlotte Bronte, and Jean Rhys, the contributors analyze women's voices and works on the subject of women's rights and the representation of the New Woman. --, Provided by publisher

Chapter 1: Alice Meynell’s Negative Happiness: The Primacy of Emotion and the Nature of Art Laura H. Clarke. Chapter 2: Struggles of the New Woman in the New World: The Life of the Nineteenth-Century Emancipated American Woman Jacquelyn C. Wenneker. Chapter 3: “One of a Sex so Weak”: Oppressed Womanhood in Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad. Chapter 4: “I am, too, an Individual”: The Making of the Professional Woman in Netta Syrett’s Writing (1890-1899) Mariam Zarif. Chapter 5: Alice Dunbar-Nelson, the George Sand of New Orleans Angela R. Hooks. Chapter 6: The Wonderful Adventures of the “Motherly Yellow Woman”: Mary Seacole’s Emancipated Journeys and Public vs. Private Life Camille S. Alexander. Chapter 7: Women within Precincts: Colonialism and Racialization in The Madwoman in the Attic, Wide Sargasso Sea, and Jane Eyre Shilpa Daithota Bhat