Concentrating on a period of significant social and political change and exploring both canonical and newly rediscovered texts, this book critically assess the

This collection brings together 20 short stories of the "fin-de-siecle" and includes such writers as George Egerton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Vernon Lee, Ada L

In fin-de-siècle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the "new women," a group of primaril

Brings into relief a critical relationship between the female mind and body that is essential to understanding the discursive position of the turn-of-the-centur

By comparing fictional representations with "real" New Women in late-Victorian Britain, Sally Ledger makes a major contribution to an understanding of the "Woma