An Adamless Eden
Counterpublics and women writers' sociability at thefin de sièclethrough the experiences of Flora Annie Steel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4912570 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gráinne Goodwin (Goodwin (United Kingdom), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 440-459 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612025.2012.726125 |
| OpenAlex | W2007546332 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This article focuses on the ‘outsider’ status of late-nineteenth-century women writers by exploring the experiences of Anglo-Indian novelist Flora Annie Steel and her responses to authorial sociability in fin-de-siècle London. Androcentric literary societies are viewed as influential sites which marginalised women writers, containing their incursion into masculine clubland and denying them access to some of the symbolic and practical benefits of professional authorship. Through the lens of Steel's experience, the discussion considers how women writers attempted to transcend exclusion through the establishment of female, literary counterpublics. Such counterpublics fostered a gendered literary consciousness that empowered women and matured in Steel's case into a political prospectus in the service of women's suffrage
Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Fin de siecle · Literature · Political science · Politics · Prospectus · Sociology · Suffrage · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · Irish and British Studies · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |