pt. 1. Feminine self-postponement Christina Rossetti's poetry: the art of self-postponement -- Middlemarch: vocation, love and the woman question -- Villette: "How shall I keep well?" -- pt. 2. Feminist self-postponement The odd women: the "poor of spirit, the flesh prevailing" -- Feminist self-postponement in theory and literature -- Sue Bridehead: a woman of the feminist movement -- pt. 3. Self-postponement and the woman artist Elizabeth Barrett Browning (and George Eliot): art versus love -- Olive Schreiner: art and the artist self-postponement
Analysis
English literature, 1837-1900. Special themes: Men Interpersonal relationships with women - Critical studies
