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Availability:In StockContributor:Katie R. PeelSeries:Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth CenturyTheme:Chronological Period/19th Century, Sex & Gender/FemininePublish date:6/23/2026Pages:232
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Manchester University PressISBN-13:9781526198211ISBN-10:1526198215UPC:9781526198211Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Modern, Subjects & Themes, Gender StudiesBook Topic:19th Century, WomenSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.49 inchesWeight:0.277Product ID:SCH8SVKPSR
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Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature identifies kept mistresses in British Victorian narrative and offers ways to understand their experiences. The author discusses kept women characters in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and Ruth, Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and examines the methods their authors use to encourage reader empathy. This book also usefully demonstrates how to identify kept women when they are less visible in texts, including in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Dickens' Hard Times and Dombey and Son, and George Gissing's The Odd Women.Languages:EnglishPublisher:Manchester University PressISBN-13:9781526198211ISBN-10:1526198215UPC:9781526198211Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Modern, Subjects & Themes, Gender StudiesBook Topic:19th Century, WomenSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.49 inchesWeight:0.277Product ID:SCH8SVKPSR
Katie R. Peel is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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