{"product_id":"improper-feminine-paperback-softback","title":"'Improper' Feminine - Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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 women and fictional heroines were supposed to aspire.\u003cbr\u003e By exploring in impressive depth and breadth the material and discursive conditions in which these novels were produced, \u003cem\u003eThe `Improper' Feminine\u003c\/em\u003e draws attention to key gendered interrelationships within the literary and wider cultures of the mid-Victorian and fin-de-diècle periods.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45585167679726,"sku":"9780415862066","price":89.25,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780415862066.jpg?v=1721118077","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/improper-feminine-paperback-softback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}