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Literary Criticism 20th Century

Critical Alliances

Economics and Feminism in English Women's Writing, 1880-1914

by (author) S. Brooke Cameron

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2020
Category
20th Century, Women Authors, 19th Century
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442625617
    Publish Date
    Jan 2020
    List Price
    $78.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781442637559
    Publish Date
    Jan 2020
    List Price
    $78.00

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Critical Alliances argues that late-Victorian and modernist feminist authors saw in literary representations of female collaboration an opportunity to produce new gender and economic roles for women. It is not often that one thinks of female allegiances – such as kinship networks, cultural inheritance, or lesbian marriage – as influencing the marketplace; nor does one often think of economic models when theorizing feminist cooperation. S. Brooke Cameron suggest that, through their representations of female partnership, feminist authors such as Virginia Woolf, Olive Schreiner, George Egerton, Amy Levy, and Michael Field redefined the gendered marketplace and, with it, women’s professional opportunities.

 

Interdisciplinary at its core and using a contextual approach, Critical Alliances selects cultural texts and theories relevant to each writer’s particular intervention in the marketplace. Chapters look at how different forms of feminist collaboration enabled women to stake their claim to one of the many, emergent professions at the turn of the century.

About the author

S. Brooke Cameron is an assistant professor in the English Department at Queen’s University.

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Editorial Reviews

“This book represents a welcome refocusing of the scholarship on feminist collaboration and Victorian debates about women’s employment.”

<em>Victorian Studies</em>