Women and Domestic Experience in Victorian Political Fiction
- ISBN-10
- 0313316341
- ISBN-13
- 9780313316340
- Category
- Literary Criticism / General
- Pages
- 181
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Greenwood Publishing Group
- Author
- Susan Johnston
Description
Studies how Victorian political fiction constructed women as rights-bearers who, through a combination of emotion and intellect, generally displayed their political status in the domestic sphere.
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