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1 online resource |
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Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century |
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Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century (Series)
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Front matter; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Chronology of Margaret Harkness's life; Margaret Harkness's connections; Selected works by Margaret Harkness; Note on texts cited; List of abbreviations; Introduction: rethinking Margaret Harkness's significance in political and literary history; Part I: Harkness's life and work; A law unto herself: the solitary odyssey of M.E. Harkness; Absent character: from Margaret Harkness to John Law; Part II: In Harkness's London; Walking Margaret Harkness's London |
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The problem of leisure/what to do for pleasure': women and leisure time in A City Girl (1887) and In Darkest London (1891)The vicissitudes of victory: Margaret Harkness, George Eastmont, Wanderer (1905), and the 1889 Dockworkers' Strike; Part III: Harkness and genre: rethinking slum fiction; Soundscapes of the city in Margaret Harkness, A City Girl (1887), Henry James, The Princess Casamassima (1885-86), and Katharine Buildings, Whitechapel; Margaret Harkness, novelist: social semantics and experiments in fiction; 'Connie': melodrama and Tory socialism |
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Part IV: Personal influences: Harkness and her contemporariesSocialism, suffering, and religious mystery: Margaret Harkness and Olive Schreiner; Margaret Harkness, W.T. Stead, and the transatlantic social gospel network; Part V: After London: Harkness's life and work in the twentieth century; Through the mill: Margaret Harkness on conjectural history and utilitarian philosophy; Lasting ties: Margaret Harkness, the Salvation Army, and A Curate's Promise (1921); Index |
| Summary |
Margaret Harkness is the first book to bring together research on the life and work of a writer, activist and traveller at the forefront of literary innovation and social change at the turn of the twentieth century. Its multidisciplinary approach combines recently uncovered biographical information with rich contextual information to illuminate the extensive career of a writer committed to exposing the exploitation of individuals and the plight of marginalised communities worldwide. The critical essays range from new considerations of Harkness's well-known novels to examinations of lesser-known periodical fiction and journalism, her relationship with contemporaries such as Olive Schreiner and W.T. Stead, and her life and work abroad in Australia and India. The book gives substance to women's social engagement and political involvement in a period prior to their formal enfranchisement and enriches understanding of the complex and dynamic world of the long nineteenth century |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Harkness, Margaret, 1854-1923 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Harkness, Margaret, 1854-1923 -- Political and social views
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Law, John 1854-1923 gnd |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
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Women's rights
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Women social reformers
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Women -- Social conditions
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Women authors, English
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Social reformers
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Political and social views
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Feminists
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Authors, English
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Soziales Engagement Motiv
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781526123510 |
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1526123517 |
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1526141973 |
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9781526141972 |
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