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Readers and mistresses

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Kept women in Victorian literature

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvKatie R. Peel

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A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2025Readers 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 Brontë’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 Brontë's Jane Eyre, Dickens' Hard Times and Dombey and Son, and George Gissing's The Odd Women.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-23
Mått140 x 216 x 13 mm
Vikt277 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieInterventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
Antal sidor232
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526198211

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Introduction: ‘“I am my own mistress”’: Kept women in Victorian literature1 Old, particular, fallen, mustachioed, and queer: Other kept women2 The women who did (and the men who did not)3 Wives and mistresses in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall4 Marian Evans' story: The kept woman in Daniel Deronda5 Near mis(tres)ses: Narrative potential v. dead endsConclusion: ‘Conventionality is not morality’ReferencesIndex