Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Parker, Christopher, 1941-

Description

1. xii, 194 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. The contributors to Gender Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Literature explore the way gender roles were constructed in literature between 1850 and the turn of the century. Whilst recognizing and building upon the enormous importance of both Victorian and twentieth-century perceptions of women's roles and the way these relate to assumptions about women's sexuality, this book is also concerned with more recently developed interests in the creation of male gender roles and different concepts of masculinity, and consequently with relations between, and within, the sexes. The second half of the nineteenth century saw a mounting attack upon the middle class family ideal which had been painstakingly developed in the preceding era; but the radicals did not have it all their own way. The unprecedented complexity of competing visions of both genders is a feature of the period, which saw gradually mounting tensions between sexual radicals and conservative upholders of traditional roles.

Series statement

1. The Nineteenth century

Uniform title

1. The Nineteenth century.

Subject

1. 1800-1899
2. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
3. Sex in literature
4. Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century
5. Gender identity in literature
6. Sex role in literature
7. Literature > english
8. Literature > history
9. Gender Identity > history
10. Sexuality > history
11. English literature
12. Gender identity in literature
13. Sex in literature
14. Sex role in literature
15. Women and literature
16. Englisch
17. Erotik Motiv
18. Frau Motiv
19. Frau
20. Geschlechterrolle Motiv
21. Geschlechterrolle
22. Literatur
23. Sexualität
24. Sekserol
25. Seksualiteit
26. Letterkunde
27. Engels
28. Great Britain
29. Englisch

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. History

Contents

1. Domestic ideology and its industrial enemies : the title page of The family economist 1848-1850 / Brian Maidment -- Gender issues and the Crimean War : creating roles for women? / Cynthia Dereli -- Gender roles and sexuality in R.D. Blackmore's other novels / Christopher Parker -- A humanist Bible : gender roles, sexuality and race in Olive Schreiner's From man to man / Murray Steele -- Edward Carpenter, Whitman and the radical aesthetic / John Simons -- The cause of women and the course of fiction : the case of Mona Caird / Lyn Pykett -- Gender, race and sexuality in Bram Stoker's other novels / Jeffrey Richards -- 'Women who dids, and all that kind of thing ... ' : male perceptions of 'wholesome' literature / Fiona Montgomery.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.