| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 352 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I. Home and family -- 'What I Can Myself Remember': Charlotte M. Yonge's Life Writing -- A Woman's Outlook: Charlotte Yonge's Sense of Place -- Charlotte M. Yonge and the Long Victorian Family: Instructing the 'Mother-Sister' -- 'A Lady with a Profession': The Governess, the Invalid, and the Woman Question in the Novels of Charlotte M. Yonge -- 'Hard Cash is a Necessary Consideration': Money and Class in Charlotte M. Yonge's Novels of Contemporary Family Life -- Part II. Society and ideologies -- 'The Wheels of this World': Science, Enquiry, and Progress in Charlotte Yonge's Novels -- Charlotte Mary Yonge and the Concept of Conservative Community -- Architecture, Faith, and Charlotte M. Yonge -- Charlotte Yonge and Mission -- Part III. Criticism and reception -- Looking Through the Past: Charlotte Yonge as Historical Novelist -- 'A Sort of Instrument for Popularizing Church Views': Charlotte Yonge, Her Mentors, and Her Publishers -- Charlotte M. Yonge, Religious Conversion, and Victorian Modernity -- Charlotte M. Yonge and the Realist Tradition -- Reading the Reception History of Charlotte Yonge -- Index |
| Summary |
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the life and work of Charlotte M. Yonge, a highly influential and popular nineteenth-century writer who is emerging from a long period of critical neglect. Its wide-ranging chapters capture the scope and quality of current work in Yonge studies, addressing the full range of her prolific literary output from her best-selling novels to her nature writing, biographies, and letters. Considering themes from gender, disability, and empire, to Tractarianism, secularism, and the idea of progress, these essays consider how Yonge reflected and shaped the tastes, ideas and anxieties of her readers and contemporaries. Exploring her key role in the Anglican revival, her importance as a test case in the development of feminist criticism, and her formal innovativeness as a novelist, this collection places Yonge centrally in the nineteenth-century literary landscape and demonstrates her ongoing relevance to scholars and students of the period. Clare Walker Gore is a lecturer in English Literature at the Open University. She held a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was named a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Her book, Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, appeared in 2019. She is pursuing a project on Victorian women writers. Clemence Schultze is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Classics at Durham University, after a career lecturing on ancient history. She has published on nineteenth-century classical reception, was for ten years Chair of the Charlotte M. Yonge Fellowship, and has co-edited an essay collection on Yonge. Julia Courtney is retired from the Open University where she was an administrator, associate lecturer and research fellow. She has published articles and book chapters on aspects of Victorian literature and culture and has co-edited two essay collections. She is co-editor, with Clemence Schultze, of the Charlotte M. Yonge Fellowship Journal |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary), 1823-1901 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary), 1823-1901 fast |
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Gender studies: women.
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Anglican & Episcopalian Churches, Church of England.
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
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Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Social Science -- Gender Studies.
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Religion -- Christianity -- Anglican.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Walker Gore, Clare.
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Schultze, Clemence
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Courtney, Julia
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| ISBN |
9783031106729 |
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3031106725 |
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