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Half savage and hardy and free : women and rural radicalism in the nineteenth century novel / Judith Weissman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c1987.Edition: 1st edDescription: 342 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0819551791 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.8/09352042 19
LOC classification:
  • PR868.W6 W4 1987
Contents:
pt. 1. Beginnings: Romantic poetry: souls and stones -- Jane Austen: loving and leaving -- Charlotte and Emily Brontë: masters and mad dogs -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: public men and private views -- pt. 2. Reactions: Mary Shelley: fiends and families -- William Makepeace Thackeray and Charles Dickens: angels and asylums -- George Eliot: women and world history -- Bram Stoker: semidemons and secretaries -- pt. 3. Returns: Anthony Trollope: fortune hunters and friends -- Thomas Hardy: modern men and milkmaids -- E.M. Forster: gasoline and goddesses -- Conclusion: suicides and sanctities.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks PR868.W6W4 1987 1 Available 33710000040712

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 307-326.

WAR, NEWBERY,

pt. 1. Beginnings: Romantic poetry: souls and stones -- Jane Austen: loving and leaving -- Charlotte and Emily Brontë: masters and mad dogs -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: public men and private views -- pt. 2. Reactions: Mary Shelley: fiends and families -- William Makepeace Thackeray and Charles Dickens: angels and asylums -- George Eliot: women and world history -- Bram Stoker: semidemons and secretaries -- pt. 3. Returns: Anthony Trollope: fortune hunters and friends -- Thomas Hardy: modern men and milkmaids -- E.M. Forster: gasoline and goddesses -- Conclusion: suicides and sanctities.