1st Edition

Women's Emancipation Writing at the Fin de Siecle

    246 Pages
    by Routledge

    246 Pages
    by Routledge

    This work investigates women’s emancipation writing in the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. Many novelists in various national literatures touched upon the theme of an emancipated woman in the long nineteenth century and at the fin de siècle. Philosophers, poets, writers, and journalists were concerned with this problem and began popularizing wholeheartedly the so-called "burning" questions. The new femininity was represented not only in the Christian context; many other traditions and cultures opened the discussion about the women’s lot. This volume analyzes women’s literary voices from different parts of the world—Turkey, England, the U.S., Italy, Russia, Spain, and others.  Imagination, as it is believed, has no borders and is dialogical in its nature.

    Introduction



    The New, but New with G*d



    Elena V. Shabliy





    Chapter 1





    Women’s Labor Activism in the Progressive Era and Marie Van Vorst’s Amanda of the Mill as a Social Propaganda Tool



    Emine Gecgil





    Chapter 2



    "I have been wronged, and I long to right myself at once": Revenge, Deceit and Female Power in Louisa May Alcott’s Sensational Short Fiction



    Evangelia Kindinger



    Chapter 3



    Who’s Afraid of Women Photographers? Redefining Gender, Gaze, and Photography in Amy Levy’s The Romance of a Shop



    Mavis Chia-Chieh Tseng





    Chapter 4



    Rediscovering London in Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern Woman



    Sun Jai Kim





    Chapter 5



    The First "New Woman" in Modern Hebrew Literature: Finalia Adelberg in Love of The Righteous, or, The Persecuted Families by Sarah Feiga Meinkin



    Michal Fram Cohen





    Chapter 6





    Gendering the Empire: The Discourse on the New Woman and Emergence of Ottoman Feminism, 1860-1918



    Burcin Cakir





    Chapter 7



    Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda: A Feminist Life and its Discourse



    Laureano Corces





     



    Chapter 8



    Harriet Beecher Stowe and Two Fin de Siècle Women Writers



    Afrin Zeenat





    Chapter 9





    Women’s Roles in Mass Literacy, Production, and Sensation in George Gissing’s New Grub Street



    Robin M. Mako Citarella





    Conclusion

    Biography

    Elena V. Shabliy is a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University.



    Dmitry Kurochkin is a Research Associate at Harvard University.



    Karen O’Donnell is the CODEC Research Fellow at Durham University.