The new woman: Fiction and Feminism at the Fin De Siecle

Sally Ledger

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Part 1 Who was the new woman?: the naming of the new the dominant discourse on the new the reverse discourse on the new feminism, revolution and evolution in Daughters of Danaus by Mona Caird (1894). Part 2 The new and socialism: the class identity of the new feminism and socialism at the fin de siecle political tracts - Eleanor Marx and Edward Aveling, Question (1886), Olive Schreiner, and Labour (1911) socialism, feminism and literary realism - Harkness, City Girl (1887) the uses of Utopia - Jane Hume Clapperton, Margaret Dummore, or, A Socialist Home (1888), Isabella Ford, On the Threshold (1895), Gertrude Dix, Image Breakers (1900). Part 3 Unlikely bedfellows? feminism and imperalism at the fin de siecle: white women and imperalism the case of Olive Schreiner Question (1899) Story of an African Farm (1883) and Child's Day (1887) Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897). Part 4 The daughters of decadence?: the new woman, the decadent and the dandy the new as sexual decadent - Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) Oscar Wilde and the new feminism, social purity and Heavenly Twins (1893). Part 5 The new and emergent lesbian identity: feminism and same-sex love from romantic friendship to lesbian pathology George Meredith's Diana of the Crossways (1885) - the limits of romantic friendship lesbian pathology in Drama in Muslin by George Moore (1886) the 20th century inheritance - lesbian sexuality in Well of Loneliness (1928) by Radclyffe Hall. Part 6 The new in the city: women, the flaneuse and public space the modern woman in the city - Ella Hepworth Dixon, Story of a Modern Woman (1894) shopgirls and new in the city - George Gissing, Odd Woman (1893) women in public - Henry James, Bostonians (1886). Part 7 The new woman, modernism and mass culture: the feminization of culture at the fin de siecle the new woman, modernism and feminine writing finding an aesthetic for the new - Sue Bridehead and Jude the Obscure George Egerton, modernism and feminist aesthetics.

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