English Faculty Books
Title
Modernism and the Women's Popular Romance in Britain, 1885-1925
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Description
Today's mass-market romances have their precursors in late Victorian popular novels written by and for women. In Modernism and the Women's Popular Romance Martin 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, 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.
ISBN
9780821419700
Publication Date
2011
Publisher
Ohio University Press
City
Athens
Recommended Citation
Hipsky, Martin, "Modernism and the Women's Popular Romance in Britain, 1885-1925" (2011). English Faculty Books. 11.
https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/eng_books/11