Writings of Hesba Stretton : Reclaiming the Outcast.
Title:
Writings of Hesba Stretton : Reclaiming the Outcast.
Author:
Lomax, Elaine.
ISBN:
9780754693079
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (252 pages)
Series:
Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Private and Public Lives -- Writing and Reading Worlds -- 1 Personal Writings, Published Texts, Biographical Perspectives -- 2 Publishers, Writers, Readers and Responses -- Part 2 Roles, Representations and Social Relations -- 3 The Child: Text, Context and Intertext -- 4 'Worth her Weight in Gold': Subtexts of Sexuality -- 5 Versions of Womanhood: Perspectives on Motherhood and Gender -- 6 Outcast Society and Society's Outcasts -- 7 Religion, Romance, Reform and Revolution: The Russian Connection -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Highly respected as a writer by her contemporaries, Hesba Stretton (1832-1911) was a vigorous campaigner for the rights of oppressed minorities and a founding member of the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Mining nineteenth-century periodicals and archival materials, Elaine Lomax explores the intersection of cultural and literary representations of the child with wider images of the colonized or excluded, and advances our understanding of the development of juvenile literature and women's writing.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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