紹介
A cultural icon of the "fin de siecle", the "New Woman" was not one figure, but several. In the guise of a bicycling, cigarette smoking Amazon, the "New Woman" romped through the pages of "Punch" and popular fiction as a neurasthenic victim of social oppression, she suffered in the pages of "New Woman" novels such as Sarah Grand's hugely successful "The Heavenly Twins". This title marks a departure in 19th century scholarship to explore the polyvocal nature of the late Victorian debates around gender, motherhood, class, race and imperialism which converged in the name of the "New Woman".
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Foreword
L.Pykett List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: A.Richardson & C.Willis 'Nothing but Foolscap and Ink', Inventing the New Woman
T.Schaffer Bicycles and Blue Stockings: Packaging the New Woman for Mass Consumption
C.Willis Horses, Bikes and Automobiles: New Women on the Move
S.Wintle Ibsen, the New Woman and the Actress
S.Ledger 'He-notes': Reconstructing Masculinity
G.Cunningham New Woman and the New Hellenism
A.Ardis Narrating the Hysteric: Fin de Siecle Medical Discourse and Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins
A.Heilmann Staging the 'Private Theatre': Gender and the Auto-Erotics of Reverie
L.Marcus Scaping the Body: Of Cannibal Mothers and Colonial Landscapes
R.Stott Capturing the Idea: Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man
C.Burdett 'People Talk a Lot of Nonsense about Heredity': Mona Caird and Anti-Eugenic Feminism
A.Richardson The New Woman in Nowhere: Feminism and Utopianism at the Fin de Siecle
M.Beaumont The Next Generation: Stella Browne, the New Woman as Freewoman
L.A.Hall Women in British Aestheticism and the Decadence
R.Gagnier Index
