Charlotte Yonge

Charlotte Yonge, a dedicated religious, didactic, and domestic novelist, has become one of the most effectively rediscovered Victorian women writers of the last decades. This book was previously published as a special issue of Women's Writing.

Informationen zum Autor Tamara S. Wagner specialises in Victorian literature. Recent books include Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction: Plotting Money and the Novel Genre, 1815-1901 (2010) and Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740-1890 (2004), as well as collections on Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers (2009) and Victorian Settler Narratives (forthcoming). Zusammenfassung Charlotte Yonge, a dedicated religious, didactic, and domestic novelist, has become one of the most effectively rediscovered Victorian women writers of the last decades. This book was previously published as a special issue of Women's Writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Novelist with a Reserved Mission: The Different Forms of Charlotte Yonge Tamara S. Wagner 2. Realism and Reserve: Charlotte Yonge and Tractarian Aesthetics Susan E. Colón 3. Charlotte Yonge: Marketing the Missionary Story Susan Walton 4. The Ship that Bears Through the Waves Teresa Huffman Traver 5. The Charity Pig: Altruism and Self-Deceit in Charlotte M. Yonge's The Stokesley Secret: or, How The Pig Paid the Rent Leslee Thorne-Murphy 6. "Never read anything that can at all unsettle your religious faith": Reading and Writing in The Monthly Packet Kristine Moruzi 7. Led Astray to be Newly Framed: Redeeming Sensational Fraud in Charlotte Yonge's Epistolary Experiments Tamara S. Wagner 8. Emma in the 1860s: Austen, Yonge, Oliphant, Eliot June Sturrock 9. Disability and the Individual Talent: Adolescent Girlhood in The Pillars of the House and What Katy Did Elizabeth Hale 10. "To Face Apparent Discrepancies with Revelation": Examining the Fossil Record in Charlotte Yonge's The Trial Mia Chen 11. Charlotte M. Yonge's Bank Account: A Rich New Source of Information on Her Work and Her Life Charlotte Mitchell

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Tamara S. Wagner specialises in Victorian literature. Recent books include Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction: Plotting Money and the Novel Genre, 1815-1901 (2010) and Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740-1890 (2004), as well as collections on Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers (2009) and Victorian Settler Narratives (forthcoming).

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1. Introduction: Novelist with a Reserved Mission: The Different Forms of Charlotte Yonge Tamara S. Wagner 2. Realism and Reserve: Charlotte Yonge and Tractarian Aesthetics Susan E. Colón 3. Charlotte Yonge: Marketing the Missionary Story Susan Walton 4. The Ship that Bears Through the Waves Teresa Huffman Traver 5. The Charity Pig: Altruism and Self-Deceit in Charlotte M. Yonge's The Stokesley Secret: or, How The Pig Paid the Rent Leslee Thorne-Murphy 6. "Never read anything that can at all unsettle your religious faith": Reading and Writing in The Monthly Packet Kristine Moruzi 7. Led Astray to be Newly Framed: Redeeming Sensational Fraud in Charlotte Yonge's Epistolary Experiments Tamara S. Wagner 8. Emma in the 1860s: Austen, Yonge, Oliphant, Eliot June Sturrock 9. Disability and the Individual Talent: Adolescent Girlhood in The Pillars of the House and What Katy Did Elizabeth Hale 10. "To Face Apparent Discrepancies with Revelation": Examining the Fossil Record in Charlotte Yonge's The Trial Mia Chen 11. Charlotte M. Yonge's Bank Account: A Rich New Source of Information on Her Work and Her Life Charlotte Mitchell