Sisters in Time: Imagining Gender in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

by Susan Morgan

Book Overview

Asking why the 19th-century British novel features heroines, and how and why it features "feminine heroism," Susan Morgan traces the relationship between fictional depictions of gender and Victorian ideas of history and progress. Morgan approaches gender in selected 19th-century British novels as an imaginative category, accessible to authors and characters of either sex. Arguing that conventional definitions of heroism offer a fixed and history-denying...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195058224
• ISBN13: 9780195058222
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"