Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature by Das, Riya
Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature by Das, Riya

Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature

In Women at Odds, Riya Das demonstrates the limitations of female solidarity for the New Woman in...
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Author: Riya Das
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Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature by Das, Riya

Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature

$1,355.58
Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature by Das, Riya

Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature

$1,355.58
Author: Riya Das
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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In Women at Odds, Riya Das demonstrates the limitations of female solidarity for the New Woman in Victorian society. On the one hand, feminist antagonism disrupts the status quo in unanticipated ways, and it helps open new domestic and professional pathways for women. On the other hand, the urban professional New Woman's rhetoric recycles distinctly sexist, racist, and classist conventions, thereby bringing middle-class Englishwomen dialectically--what Das terms "retro-progressively"--into the labor pool of the British empire. While foregrounding the figure of the New Woman as a white imperialist reformer, Das illustrates how the New Woman movement detaches itself from the domestic politics of female friendship. In works by George Eliot, George Gissing, Olive Schreiner, Bram Stoker, and others, antagonism and indifference enable the fin de si?cle New Woman to transcend traditionally defined roles and fashion social progress for herself at the expense of femininities she excludes as "other." By contesting the critical notion of solidarity as the only force that brings Victorian women's narratives to fruition, Women at Odds reveals the troubled but effective role of antagonistic and indifferent reformist politics in loosening rigid social structures for privileged populations.



Author: Riya Das
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 09/12/2024
Pages: 210
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780814215722

About the Author
Riya Das (she/her) is Assistant Professor of English at Prairie View A&M University, where she specializes in nineteenth-century British literature, gender, and empire. She is currently editing the first-ever critical edition of Mona Caird's feminist novel The Daughters of Danaus. She was awarded an NEH grant to support this book.


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