This book is concerned with the figure of the female performer in nineteenth-century fiction. It explores the attitudes of Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne and
This book explores Henry James’s negotiations with nineteenth-century ideas about gender, sexuality, class, and literary style through the responses of three
In an exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, this work challenges conventional male-centred theories of modernity. It examines the g
A collection of the author's essays on the history and development of female identity from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Throughout the book are woven t