'Improper' Feminine
The women''s sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s were two major examples of a perceived feminine invasion of fiction which caused a critical furore in their day.
Both genres, with their shocking, `fast'' heroines, fired the popular imagination by putting female sexuality on the literary agenda and undermining the `proper feminine'' ideal to which nineteenth-century ...
The women''s sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s were two major examples of a perceived feminine invasion of fiction which caused a critical furore in their day.
Both genres, with their shocking, `fast'' heroines, fired the popular imagination by putting female sexuality on the literary agenda and undermining the `proper feminine'' ideal to which nineteenth-century ...
