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 Bront'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 Bront's Jane Eyre, Dickens' Hard Times and Dombey and Son, and George Gissing's The Odd Women.
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Katie R. Peel Imprint: Manchester University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
ISBN:9781526176479 ISBN 10: 1526176475 Series:Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century Pages: 232 Publication Date:24 September 2024 Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
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Undergraduate
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Katie R. Peel is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
