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Margaret Harkness

Writing Social Engagement 1880–1921

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Margaret Harkness is the first book to bring together research on the life and work of a writer, activist and traveller at the forefront of literary innovation and social change at the turn of the twentieth century. Its multidisciplinary approach combines recently uncovered biographical information with rich contextual information to illuminate the extensive career of a writer committed to exposing the exploitation of individuals and the plight of marginalised communities worldwide. The critical essays range from new considerations of Harkness’s well-known novels to examinations of lesser-known periodical fiction and journalism, her relationship with contemporaries such as Olive Schreiner and W. T. Stead, and her life and work abroad in Australia and India. The book gives substance to women’s social engagement and political involvement in a period prior to their formal enfranchisement and enriches understanding of the complex and dynamic world of the long nineteenth century.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-11-26
Mått138 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieInterventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
Antal sidor264
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526123503

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Chronology of Margaret Harkness’s lifeMargaret Harkness’s connectionsSelected works by Margaret HarknessNote on texts citedIntroduction: Rethinking Margaret Harkness’s Significance in Political and Literary HistoryLisa C. Robertson and Flore JanssenPart I: Harkness’s Life and Work1. A Law unto Herself: the Solitary Odyssey of M. E. HarknessTerry Elkiss2. Absent Character: from Margaret Harkness to John LawTabitha SparksPart II: In Harkness’s London3. Walking Harkness’s LondonNadia Valman4. ‘The Problem of Leisure/What to do for Pleasure’: Women and Leisure Time in A City Girl (1887) and In Darkest London (1891)Eliza Cubitt5. The Vicissitudes of Victory: Margaret Harkness, George Eastmont, Wanderer (1905), and the 1889 Dockworkers’ StrikeDavid GloverPart III: Harkness and Genre: Rethinking Slum Fiction6. Soundscapes of the City in Margaret Harkness, A City Girl (1887), Henry James, The Princess Casamassima (1885–86), and Katharine Buildings, WhitechapelRuth Livesey7. Margaret Harkness, Novelist: Social Semantics and Experiments in FictionLynne Hapgood8. ‘Connie’: Melodrama and Tory-SocialismDeborah MutchPart IV: Personal Influences: Harkness and her Contemporaries9. Socialism, Suffering, and Religious Mystery: Margaret Harkness and Olive SchreinerAngharad Eyre10. Margaret Harkness, W. T. Stead, and the Transatlantic Social Gospel NetworkHelena GoodwynPart V: After London: Harkness’s Life and Work in the Twentieth Century11. Through the Mill: Margaret Harkness on Conjectural History and Utilitarian PhilosophyLisa C. Robertson12. Lasting Ties: Margaret Harkness, the Salvation Army, and A Curate’s Promise (1921)Flore JanssenIndex