Gender, Technology and the New Woman Contributor(s): Wånggren, Lena (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474441300 ISBN-13: 9781474441308 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Feminist - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 820.935 |
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.57 lbs) 232 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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Publisher Description: The first full-length study of modern technologies in late-Victorian New Woman writing This book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality. The New Woman, the fin de siècle cultural archetype of early feminism, became the focal figure for key nineteenth-century debates concerning issues such as gender and sexuality, evolution and degeneration, science, empire and modernity. While the New Woman is located in the debates concerning the 'crisis in gender' or 'sexual anarchy' of the time, the period also saw an upsurge of new technologies of communication, transport and medicine. As this monograph demonstrates, literature of the time is inevitably caught up in this technological modernity: technologies such as the typewriter, the bicycle, and medical technologies, through literary texts come to work as freedom machines, as harbingers of female emancipation. Key Features
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