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949393
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b703763
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Pykett, Lyn.
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| Title & Author
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The "improper" feminine : : the women's sensation novel and the new woman writing /\ Lyn Pykett.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 1992.
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1 online resource (xi, 235 pages)
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| ISBN
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0203359208
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: 0415049288
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: 041586206X
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: 1280071877
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: 661007187X
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: 9780203359204
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: 9780415049283
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: 9780415862066
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: 9781134944835
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: 9781280071874
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: 9786610071876
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0415049288
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index.
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| Contents
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pt. 1. The 'improper' feminine -- pt. 2. The sentimental and sensational sixties : the limits of the proper feminine -- pt. 3. Breaking the bounds : the improper feminine and the fiction of the new woman.
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| Abstract
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The first comparative study of the women's sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s, two genres which undermined the ideal of the `proper feminine' and dangerously put female sexuality on the literary agenda.
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English fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
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English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Femininity in literature.
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Feminism and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Feminist fiction, English-- History and criticism.
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Fiction-- Authorship-- Sex differences.
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Sensationalism in literature.
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Sex in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Women's rights in literature.
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English fiction-- Women authors.
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English fiction.
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Femininity in literature.
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Feminism and literature.
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Feminist fiction, English.
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Fiction-- Authorship-- Sex differences.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Sensationalism in literature.
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Sex in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Women and literature.
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Women's rights in literature.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.8099287
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| LC Classification
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PR878.F45P94 1992eb
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