Daughters Of Decadence: Stories by Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siecle - Brossura

Showalter, Elaine

Brossura

ISBN 10: 185381590X ISBN 13: 9781853815904

Casa editrice: Virago, 1993

Riassunto

At the turn of the century, short stories by -and often about- 'New Women' flooded the pages of English and American magazines like The Yellow Book, The Savoy, Atlantic Monthly and Harpers. This daring new fiction, often innovative in form, and courageous in its candid literary aspiration, shocked Victorian critics who parodied the experimental stories in Punch as symptoms of fin de siecle decadence, or denounced the authors as 'literary degenerates' or 'erotomaniacs'.

This collection brings together twenty of the most original and important stories, including such little-known writers as Victoria Cross, George Egerton, Vernon Lee, Constance Fenimore Wollson and Charlotte Mew. Ranging from the lyrical to the Gothic, and frequently dealing with the conflicts of women artists, the short fiction of the fin de siecle is the missing link between the Golden Age of Victorianism women writers and the new era of feminist modernism.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

Stories by celebrated female writers Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton - edited by Elaine Showalter

L'autore:

Elaine Showalter was born in Cambridge, Mass in 1941 and was educated at Bryn Mawr College and the University of California. From 1967 to 1984 she taught at English and Women's Studies at Rutger's University and is now Professor of English at Princeton University.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Virago
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 185381590X
• ISBN 13: 9781853815904
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Redattore: Showalter Elaine