Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature

Readers 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 Bront?'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 Bront?'s Jane Eyre, Dickens' Hard Times and Dombey and Son, and George Gissing's The Odd Women.

Author: Katie R. Peel
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 09/24/2024
Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781526176479