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'Improper' Feminine

by Lyn Pykett
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Overview

The first comparative study of the women's sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s, two genres which undermined the ideal of the 'proper feminine' and dangerously put female sexuality on the literary agenda.

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Book Details

Published
September 3, 1992
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN
9780203359204

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