Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Maroona Murmu
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women Writers ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Language Form ◽  
Sociopolitical Context ◽  
Bengali Language

The ‘Introduction’ helps the readers situate Hindu and Brahmo women’s literary outpourings within the wider sociopolitical context of nineteenth-century Bengal. It locates the eager penmanship of Bengali women within the larger and growing milieu of print literature; the tension between formal and informal forms of Bengali language; and the statistical analysis of ‘books in print’. The startling fact of the price of woman-authored books being on par with male-authored ones is a revelation about the market for women-authored texts. Extant literature on women authors in the nineteenth century considers the major scholarly epitomes that have appeared in the last 50 years in Bangla and English on women’s writings in Bengal. The ‘Chapters’ Overview’ deals with autobiographies, diaries, didactic tracts, novels, and travelogues written by women writers to examine how their literary production varied in style, content, and language form within and across genres. It demonstates both divergences and convergences in literary creations amongst male and female writers.

Beyond Contempt: Ways to Read Uncle Tom's Cabin

PMLA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 133 (3) ◽  
pp. 633-639
Author(s):  
Faye Halpern
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women Writers ◽  
Harriet Beecher Stowe ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
Uncle Tom's Cabin ◽  
Popular Book ◽  
Nineteenth Century United States

I wrote my dissertation in the late 1990s. it compared harriet beecher stowe and other antebellum sentimental women writers with professional male orators and rhetoricians. I argued that these women authors hadn't been writing in a rhetorical room of their own. Instead, they were solving problems that the professionals could not. While writing the dissertation, I asked a friend who was in my program to read my chapter on the most popular book in the nineteenth-century United States, Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

‘What should we do in America?’: Immigrant Economies in Nineteenth-Century American Children's Fiction

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Roxanne Harde
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women Writers ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Class I ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
American Women Writers ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
American Society ◽  
Immigrant Economies

This essay examines narratives about immigrants in a sampling of nineteenth-century American children's texts and grows out of my work on reform writing by major women authors. Many of the stories they published in the leading children's periodicals seem to welcome the immigrant contributor to American society even as they defined that immigrant's place in economic/class structures. The goal of this paper is to trace certain strains of the systematic discipline by which American culture tried to manage the immigrant in terms of class. I therefore consider the role of economics in immigrant stories written for children by a number of American women writers, with analyses of the ways in which these stories situate the dependent and independent immigrant in the marketplace.

scholarly journals Literature Female Travel: The Vision of Spain Throughout Six Foreign Writers

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (32) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Lorena Barco Cebrian
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women Writers ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Female Writers

Travel literature is a genre very known by the historiography; the researchers have been analyzed from the journeys of the Antiquity up to the Contemporaneousness. Nevertheless, those studies have showed a special interest for the travel literature produced by masculine subjects, whereas the literature produced by female writers has not been treated up to very recent dates. For it, in this work we propose to announce a series of women writers, some of them very known already, but others practically unknown in our country. These women, intrepid and bold travelers, travelled to Spain throughout the centuries of the Modernity, extending the period chronological until the Nineteenth century. It is of six women writers whose literary production, in most cases, has not been translated into Spanish.

scholarly journals “Catastrophically Romantic”: Radical Inversions of Gilbert and Gubar’s Monstrous Angel in Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-110
Author(s):  
Ashley E. Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women Writers ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Literary Imagination ◽  
Woman Writer ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Female Violence ◽  
Female Figures

Abstract In their landmark text The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteen Century Literary Imagination (1970), Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar pose a series of hypotheses concerning women-authored fiction in the nineteenth century, identifying two archetypical female figures in patriarchal literary contexts – the Angel in the House, and the Monstrous (Mad)Woman. Gilbert and Gubar echo a Woolf-ian call to action that women writers must destroy both the angel and the monster in their fiction, and many contemporary women authors have answered that call – examining and complicating Gilbert and Gubar’s original dichotomy to reflect contemporary concerns with female violence and feminism. Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl (2012), and in particular the character of Amy Elliott Dunne, explores modern iterations of the Angel v. Monster dynamic in the guise of the “Cool Girl,” thus revising these stereotypes to fit them in a postmodern socio-historical context. The controversy that surrounds the text, as well as its incredible popularity, indicates that the narrative has struck a chord with readers and critics alike. Both Amy and Nick Dunne represent the Angel and the Monster in their marriage, embodying Flynn’s critical feminist commentary on white, upper-middle class, heterosexual psychopathy.

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