Protest and Reform: The British Social Narrative by Women, 1827-1867The social novel in nineteenth-century Britain has been considered the effort of a predominantly male canon of writers. In this ground-breaking study, Joseph Kestner challenges that assumption, arguing that it was a succession of female writers--women often meriting only a footnote in literary history--who initiated and advanced the tradition using narrative fiction to register protest, expose abuses, and promote reform. |
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... social history , that is part of the tradition of nineteenth- century female authorship without being its most distinguished part . This is not a reason , however , for it to remain indistinguishable . In the canon of female social fiction ...
... fiction by women – Michael Armstrong , Helen Fleetwood , or The Rioters , for example — women were not successful in depicting male characters , A Manchester Strike , North and ... social novel , " because it embraces 18 The Social Narrative.
The British Social Narrative by Women, 1827-1867 Joseph A. Kestner. In the latter part of the eighteenth century , and during the first three decades of the nineteenth century , several practitioners of the social novel were active ...
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