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Reviewing Sex

Gender and the Reception of Victorian Novels

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. Nicola Diane Thompson

    1. Kingston University, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Nicola Diane Thompson
    Pages 1-7

  3. Reviewing and Writing: Sex and Gender

    • Nicola Diane Thompson
    Pages 8-24

  4. The “Virile Creator” versus the “Twaddlers Tame and Soft”: Charles Reade’s It Is Never Too Late To Mend

    • Nicola Diane Thompson
    Pages 25-41

  5. The Unveiling of Ellis Bell: Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

    • Nicola Diane Thompson
    Pages 42-65

  6. “Something both More and Less than Manliness”: Anthony Trollope’s Reception

    • Nicola Diane Thompson
    Pages 66-86

  7. “The Angel in the Circulating Library”: Gender and the Reception of Charlotte Yonge’s The Heir of Redclyffe

    • Nicola Diane Thompson
    Pages 87-107

  8. Conclusion

    • Nicola Diane Thompson
    Pages 108-119

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 120-164
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Reviewing Sex: Gender and the Reception of Victorian Novels looks at the influence of Victorian definitions of gender on the cultural processes of reading and canon formation in nineteenth-century England, examining the reception of several mid-century works in over 100 Victorian book reviews. This study investigates four canonical and popular novelists (Emily Bronte, Anthony Trollope, Charles Reade, Charlotte Yonge), all of whom caused high cultural commotions by epitomizing or subverting contemporary definitions of 'masculine' or 'feminine' writing.

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  • Kingston University, UK

    Nicola Diane Thompson

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NICOLE DIANE THOMPSON

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