Wild Irish Women: Gender, Politics, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century

2002 ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Tamara L. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Irish Women

Inherited Emotions: George Eliot and the Politics of Heirlooms

2010 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Dunagan Osborne
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sexual Development ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Daniel Deronda ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
And Gender

Katherine Dunagan Osborne, "Inherited Emotions: George Eliot and the Politics of Heirlooms" (pp. 465––493) This essay removes George Eliot's heroines from heterosexual dyads to focus on the roles that things play in women's autonomous moral and sexual development. Because Eliot's female protagonists can adapt heirlooms for their own private and emotional purposes, they can replace traditional inheritance based on bloodlines with a non-familial, emotional inheritance, thus illustrating the subtlety of Eliot's family and gender politics. This reading of Eliot contextualizes specific heirlooms in Middlemarch (1871––72) and Daniel Deronda (1876)——including miniature portraits, emeralds, turquoises, and diamonds——to reveal the surprising politics embedded in Eliot's heirlooms that her nineteenth-century readers would certainly have recognized.

Gender Politics and the Study of Nineteenth-Century Autobiography

1998 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clinton MacHann
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Social Agendas ◽  
Literary Autobiography

This article discusses ideologically-slanted reactions to the study of British Victorian autobiography, a “male-dominated” literary genre, as an example of the “social agendas” currently operative in the study of the humanities. It focuses on the publication and reception of the book The Genre of Autobiography in Victorian Literature (1994a). Literary autobiography for the Victorians was a referential, nonfiction genre, which, with conventional pressures applied through historicity and verifiability, required the conflation of mental or spiritual (inner) development and the (outer) development of career and reputation based on publications (along with other public works). The field of men's studies opens up a space within which male writers like the Victorian autobiographers can be studied unapologetically from a variety of theoretical perspectives.

Egyptian Connections and the Nationalist Press

2021 ◽  
pp. 66-118
Author(s):  
Marilyn Booth
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
British Occupation

The chapter narrates the context Fawwaz entered in Egypt, the final third of the nineteenth century, a time of nationalist ferment before and in the wake of the British occupation (1882). It focuses on the little-studied figure of Hasan Husni al-Tuwayrani, who published many of Fawwaz’s essays in his newspaper al-Nil. The chapter considers the gender politics of al-Nil and the more prominent newspapers al-Mu’ayyad and Lisan al-hal in which Fawwaz also published, asking why she might have chosen to publish a majority of her essays in al-Nil, in the period 1892‒4. One likely factor was al-Tuwayrani’s adherence to the long-attested, rule-governed debate genre of munazara, explored here. The chapter also considers the reception through newspaper announcements of Fawwaz’s writings.

Afterword

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph M. Leck
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Officer Corps ◽  
Nazi Ideology ◽  
Cultural Affinity

This concluding chapter discusses how underlying the choice of Ulrichs as a symbol of resistance to Prussian–Nazi politics resulted to growing popular recognition of sexual politics as a vital feature of modern history. In this vein, Minister Einem's expulsion of homosexuals from the German officer corps reveals the cultural affinity between the rise of mass armies in the nineteenth century and the construction of modern masculinity. This affinity was a core cultural–political continuity between Prussian authoritarianism and the Nazi dictatorship. Indeed, the aspect of Nazi ideology that most closely resembled the fascist archetype was its gender politics. The choice of Ulrichs as a replacement for Einem, then, symbolizes rising acknowledgment that reactionary sexual politics was the greatest moral–cultural appeal of fascist populism.

Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens, and the Rise of the Victorian Woman of Letters

2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-483
Author(s):  
Iain Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Woman Writer ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Harriet Martineau ◽  
Professional Woman ◽  
The Relationship

This essay revisits a public dispute between Harriet Martineau and Charles Dickens during the winter of 1855–56. It argues both that the nature of their quarrel has been largely misunderstood and also that its wider implications for understanding nineteenth-century intellectual and literary culture have been overlooked. The essay thus reexamines the dispute, its origins, and its aftermath, and places the event within the context of recent critical readings of Utilitarianism, the experience of industrial society, and the emergence of the professional woman writer. In so doing, it shows that a deeper exploration of the relationship between Martineau and Dickens adds considerably not only to our knowledge of the two authors themselves but also to our understanding of the ways in which nineteenth-century intellectual history interacts with the gender politics of Victorian literary culture and publishing.

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