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Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance in Britain, 1885–1925

Martin Hipsky

2011

Overview

Today's mass-market romances have their precursors in late Victorian popular novels written by and for women. InModernism and the Women's Popular RomanceMartin Hipsky scrutinizes some of the best-selling British fiction from the period 1885 to 1925, the era when romances, especially those by British women, were sold and read more widely than ever before or since.Recent scholarship has explored the desires and anxieties addressed by both \"low modern\" and \"high modernist\" British culture in the decades straddling the turn of the twentieth century. In keeping with these new studies, Hipsky offers a nuanced portrait of an important phenomenon in the history of modern fiction. He puts popular romances by Mrs. Humphry Ward, Marie Corelli, the Baroness Orczy, Florence Barclay, Rebecca West, Elinor Glyn, Victoria Cross, Ethel Dell, and E. M. Hull into direct relationship with the fiction of Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, and D. H. Lawrence, among other modernist greats.

• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Subject: 19th century / 20th century / Books and reading / Books and reading -- Great Britain / English fiction / English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism / Great Britain / History / History and criticism / Language & Literature / LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Modernism (Literature) / Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain / Popular literature / Popular literature -- Great Britain / Sociology / Women and literature / Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century / Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century / Women authors
• ISBN: 9780821419700, 0821419706, 9780821443774, 0821443771