Intergenerational Collaboration and Conflict: Women’s Periodicals at the Fin de Siècle

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexis Easley
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
New Woman ◽  
New Products ◽  
New Age ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Women's Periodicals

This chapter examines conflicts between different generations of women in the late decades of the nineteenth century as played out in the popular press, including the burgeoning market for women’s magazines. It shows how print culture, including in new feminist magazines, constructed and then exploited divisions between the ‘old lady’, ‘new woman’ and ‘new girl’, often for the purposes of advertising new products. It shows how at this time the modern woman was represented in the periodical press as a consumer and advertising commodity, as a sensationalist figure of controversy, as well as a symbol of the new age.

Typewriters and Typists: Secretarial Agency at the Fin de Siècle

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Wånggren
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Woman ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Self Formation

The second chapter examines the link between the New Woman and the typewriter, a technology which proved one of the most significant means for women to enter the offices at the Victorian fin de siècle. The chapter provides a historical and literary account of both the machine and its operator, through reading fictional works as well as trade journals and other periodical press of the time. As the typewriter came into widespread use in the late nineteenth century, the New Woman typist became a recurrent literary motif. Reading Grant Allen’s The Type-Writer Girl (1897) and Tom Gallon’s The Girl Behind the Keys (1903), the chapter emphasises a kind of secretarial agency formulated in these works, in which the New Woman typist figure appropriates the typewriter as a means of self-formation.

Raza latina: immigration and decadence at the fin de siècle

2018 ◽  
pp. 29-56
Author(s):  
Michela Coletta
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
Progressive Degeneration ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
The Impact

This chapter explores the ways in which the incorporation of the notion of ‘Latinity’ was affected by changing representations of European civilisation. Through an analysis of the discourses that were created in the popular press, the key argument here is that shifting perceptions of the European immigrant deeply affected the debate on the Latin race: rather than being taken at face value, the possible implications of belonging to the cultural and political sphere of the Latin countries of Europe were long debated. More specifically, the chapter explores the idea of national degeneration in relation to responses to and perceptions of ‘Latin’ immigration at the turn of the century. The significant waves of immigration from Southern Europe fuelled discussions over the impact of a notion such as that of Latinity, which was becoming identified with ideas of progressive degeneration in the contemporary sociological literature. The civilising power of the immigrant was increasingly ambivalent as he was identified with a decadent civilisation whose values seemed to clash with nineteenth-century liberal ideals. So, contrary to the widely shared assumption that ‘Latin America’ was a uniform notion, this discussion shows the complex debates about Latinity and Anglo-Saxonness in each of the three national contexts.

ADVERTISING MODERNITY IN WOMEN'S WORLD: WOMEN'S LIFESTYLE AND LEISURE IN LATE-OTTOMAN ISTANBUL

Hawwa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-63
Author(s):  
Pelin Başci
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Woman ◽  
New Products ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Late Ottoman

AbstractWomen and gender can be used as an index of modernization in late-Ottoman society. The study of women in relation to consumption is relatively new, but it is a topic capable of informing us simultaneously about the emergence of modern goods and services targeting women and women's attitudes and expectations towards the new lifestyle that was beginning to attract them. This study explores advertisements—mostly on education, entertainment, leisure and conveniences, food, and wealth—which appeared in a late-Ottoman women's journal, Women's World, during the early decades of the twentieth century. It traces the emergence of "the new woman" through the popular press, showing how women comprised a well-defined, visible market for many of the modern goods and services in these areas. Advertisements paint a picture of upper-class Ottoman women who were active in shaping a hybrid Ottoman modernity, even as they shared the anxieties of the broader culture, which greeted many of the new products, tastes, and customs with ambivalence.

Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Woman Question ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
History Of ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Women's Periodicals ◽  
Women’S History

This collection of new essays offers in-depth analysis of the multi-faceted relationship between women, periodicals and print culture in Victorian Britain. This period witnessed the proliferation of print culture and the greater availability of periodicals for an increasingly diverse readership and, as a result, the Victorian periodical press has been of keen interest to scholars working across a range of specialist fields in recent decades. No previous volume, however, has offered as rich or as diverse a set of essays on women’s periodicals and women authors, editors, engravers, illustrators and readers of this crucial period in the history of periodical culture. This was, after all, a significant period in women’s history, in which the ‘Woman Question’ dominated public debate, and writers and commentators from a range of perspectives engaged with ideas and ideals about womanhood ranging from the ‘Angel in the House’ to the New Woman. Essays in this collection gather together expertise from leading scholars as well as emerging new voices in order to produce sustained analysis of underexplored periodicals and authors and to reveal in new ways the dynamic and integral relationship between women’s history and print culture in Victorian society.

scholarly journals Performing the Female Alternative in Victorian Popular Drama: The “Girl of the Period” and the “Fast Girl”

2021 ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Victoria Puchal Terol
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Woman ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Woman Question ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Popular Drama

During the nineteenth century, theatregoing became the favoured entertainment of both the lower and upper classes in London. As Davis (1994, 307) suggests, the plays were a “mirrored reflection” of society, and they had the ability to reflect important socio-political issues on stage, while also influencing people’s opinion about them. Thus, by turning to the popular stage of the mid-century we can better understand social issues like the Woman Question, or the tensions around imperial policies, among others. As such, this article scrutinises the ways in which Victorian popular drama influenced the period’s ideal of femininity by using stock characters inspired by real women’s movements. Two such cases are the “Girl of the Period” and the “Fast Girl”, protofeminists that would go on to influence the New Woman of the fin-de-siècle. We analyse two plays from the mid-century: the Adelphi’s Our Female American Cousin (1860), by Charles Gayler, and the Strand’s My New Place (1863), by Arthur Wood. As this article attests, popular plays like these would inadvertently bring into the mainstream the ongoing political fight for female rights through their use of transgressive female characters and promotion of scenarios where alternative feminine identities could be performed and imagined.

scholarly journals "A lady to take care of us at last"

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalind Crocker
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Woman ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Political Uncertainties

This essay explores the depiction of the “New Woman” figure in J. M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy (1911). By exploring contradictory modes of femininity, Barrie’s novel points to the ways in which established norms of masculinity at the fin-de-siècle were defined and frustrated by their relation to an unstable feminine ideal. The following essay will argue that the novel’s inconsistent depictions of femininity point to an end-of-the-era anxiety surrounding the emergent New Woman, an ambivalence which is symptomatic of the wider social and political uncertainties that defined the aftermath of the nineteenth century.

The Matter of Form: Fin-de-Siècle Illustrated Poetry and the Periodical Press

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Graphic Arts ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter examines the innovative use of print and illustration in the publishing of poetry in late nineteenth-century magazines. It shows how print and illustration were used to build a coherence or unity of the graphic arts, which in turn helped mark out a distinctive audience for such poetry. It explains the ways in which 1890s poetry was contingent on its graphic treatment in its print context, highlighting the richness of the decorative poetics of this period.

scholarly journals Women Periodicals in the New Woman Print Culture of Fin-de-Siècle Britain

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Font Paz
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
New Woman ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Marriage Plot ◽  
Literary Marketplace ◽  
Female Self ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Las Mujeres

Abstract:The 1890s saw an increasing feminization of the literary marketplace, as more than a hundred novels representing the ‘New Woman’ defying the conventional Victorian marriage plot and values were published. Contemporary print culture was aware of the emergence of a type of woman who was educated, independent-minded, and eager to consume both fiction and journalism. Focusing on four long issues of the magazine Womanhood (1894-1904), this article will explore the ways it departed from ‘family’ papers and emerged as an outlet for much of the New Woman thought. Womanhood sought to change the reading strategies of women by empowering them to gain a critical and crucial knowledge of social realities. Thus, ‘New Woman’ did not necessarily construct a gender identity in relation to the text, but developed a knowledge and empowerment of the female self by the act of reading print culture and novels in a new light.Keywords: New Woman; Womanhood; Fin-de-siècle; Print Culture; Selfhood.Title in Spanish: Periódicos femeninos de la cultura editorial de la Nueva Mujer en la Gran Bretaña de fin de sigloResumen:La década de 1890 fue testigo de una creciente feminización del mercado literario con la publicación de más de un centenar de novelas que representaban a la ‘Nueva Mujer’ desafiando a la trama convencional victoriana y sus valores. La cultura impresa contemporánea era consciente del emerger de una clase de mujer cultivada, independiente y ansiosa por consumir obras de ficción y periodismo. Este artículo se centra en cuatro números de la revista Womanhood (1894-1904) para explorar el modo en que sus contenidos se distanciaban de los periódicos “familiares” y se erigían como baluartes del pensamiento de la Nueva Mujer en el Reino Unido. Womanhood buscaba cambiar las estrategias de lectura de las mujeres capacitándolas para obtener un conocimiento crítico y crucial de las realidades sociales. De este modo, la Nueva Mujer no construía necesariamente una identidad de género en relación al texto, sino que desarrollaba un conocimiento y capacitación de la esencia femenina por el mero hecho de leer novelas y artículos bajo un prisma distinto.Palabras Clave: Nueva Mujer; Womanhood; Fin-de-siècle; Cultura impresa; identidad del yo. 

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