Gothic feminism : the professionalization of gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontës / by Hoeveler, Diane Long, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Gothic feminism and the professionalization of "femininity" -- Gendering the civilizing process: the case of Charlotte Smith's Emmiline, the orphan of the castle -- Gendering victimization: Radcliffe's early Gothics -- Gendering vindication: Radcliffe's major gothics -- Hyperbolic femininity: Jane Austen, "Rosa Matilda" and Mary Shelley -- The triumph of the civilizing process: the Brontës and romantic feminism.…”
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The imagination of class : masculinity and the Victorian urban poor / by Bivona, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Sensational journalism, male detachment, and the feminized victim -- Culturalism, the feminized poor, and the land of deadened affect -- Morrison, Gissing, and the stark reality -- Hell hath its flâneurs : the discourse of the abyss -- Conclusion : representing the poor and forestalling abjection.…”
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