New Woman Fiction: Women Writing First-Wave Feminism

By Ann Heilmann

The New Woman was the symbol of the shifting categories of gender and sexuality and epitomised the spirit of the fin de si cle . This informative monograph offers an interdisciplinary approach to the growing field of New Woman studies by exploring the relationship between first-wave feminist literature, the nineteenth-century women's movement and female consumer culture. The book expertly places the debate about femininity, feminism and fiction in its cultural and socio-historical context, examining New Woman fiction as a genre whose emerging theoretical discourse prefigured concepts central to second-wave feminist theory.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333794168
• ISBN13: 9780333794166
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"