Virginia Blain
Biographic Data
| ID | 1627035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Virginia Blain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Virginia |
| FAMILY NAME | Blain |
| SIGNATURE | BLAIN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tennyson and the Spinster
No Name
Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the traumatic discovery that their dearly loved parents, whose sudden deaths have left them orphans, were not married at the time of their birth. Disinherited by law and brutally ousted from Combe-Raven, the idyllic country estate which has been their peaceful home since childhood, the two young women are left to fend for themselves. Whi…
Queer Empathy
Any study of Victorian sexuality provides a cultural mirror for our own contemporary anxieties about sexual difference, homophobia, alternative masculinities and the range of perversities that characterizes ‘queer’ practices. This article explores notions of queer subjectivity and empathy in writer/reader relations as they inform cross-gender or transsexual play in late Victorian poetics, as demonstrated by the controversial William Sharp/Fiona M…
Caroline Bowles Southey 1786-1854
Anthologising Women Poets
Anthologising Women Poets Virginia Blain Virginia Blain 1Macquarie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 2, Issue 2, Spring 1997, Pages 291–301, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555509709505954 Published: 01 March 1997
Michael field, the two-headed nightingale
The poetry produced by the two British women who lived and wrote together in the late nineteenth century under the joint pseudonym ‘Michael Field’ has been regarded as a univocal product by its admirers and detractors alike. Yet such a reading of their work, although encouraged by the authors themselves, tends to homogenise it and disguise the much more dynamic dialogic structure that sustains it. This structure stems from the real differences be…
The Feminist Companion to Literature in English
An international guide to women writers in English, featuring both well-known and obscure women writers from the British Isles and North America as well as writers from the Caribbean, the South Pacific, Australia, Asia and Africa. It includes not only poets, dramatists and novelists, but also diarists, translators and spiritual autobiographers. Most entries are biographical but there are numerous topic entries as well
Thinking back through our aunts
Maculate conceptions
Margaret Homans: Bearing the Word: Languaye and Female Experience in Nineteenth‐Century Women's Writing. (University of Chicago Press) Chicago and London, 1986
Michael field, the two-headed nightingale
The poetry produced by the two British women who lived and wrote together in the late nineteenth century under the joint pseudonym ‘Michael Field’ has been regarded as a univocal product by its admirers and detractors alike. Yet such a reading of their work, although encouraged by the authors themselves, tends to homogenise it and disguise the much more dynamic dialogic structure that sustains it. This structure stems from the real differences be…
Thinking back through our aunts
Maculate conceptions
Margaret Homans: Bearing the Word: Languaye and Female Experience in Nineteenth‐Century Women's Writing. (University of Chicago Press) Chicago and London, 1986
Thinking back through our aunts
The Feminist Companion to Literature in English
An international guide to women writers in English, featuring both well-known and obscure women writers from the British Isles and North America as well as writers from the Caribbean, the South Pacific, Australia, Asia and Africa. It includes not only poets, dramatists and novelists, but also diarists, translators and spiritual autobiographers. Most entries are biographical but there are numerous topic entries as well
Michael field, the two-headed nightingale
The poetry produced by the two British women who lived and wrote together in the late nineteenth century under the joint pseudonym ‘Michael Field’ has been regarded as a univocal product by its admirers and detractors alike. Yet such a reading of their work, although encouraged by the authors themselves, tends to homogenise it and disguise the much more dynamic dialogic structure that sustains it. This structure stems from the real differences be…
Anthologising Women Poets
Anthologising Women Poets Virginia Blain Virginia Blain 1Macquarie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 2, Issue 2, Spring 1997, Pages 291–301, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555509709505954 Published: 01 March 1997
Caroline Bowles Southey 1786-1854
Queer Empathy
Any study of Victorian sexuality provides a cultural mirror for our own contemporary anxieties about sexual difference, homophobia, alternative masculinities and the range of perversities that characterizes ‘queer’ practices. This article explores notions of queer subjectivity and empathy in writer/reader relations as they inform cross-gender or transsexual play in late Victorian poetics, as demonstrated by the controversial William Sharp/Fiona M…
No Name
Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the traumatic discovery that their dearly loved parents, whose sudden deaths have left them orphans, were not married at the time of their birth. Disinherited by law and brutally ousted from Combe-Raven, the idyllic country estate which has been their peaceful home since childhood, the two young women are left to fend for themselves. Whi…
Tennyson and the Spinster
Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Literature: history, themes, analysis (3 works) · Cultural History and Identity Formation (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)