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Educating Women: Cultural Conflict and Victorian Literature »

Authors: Laura Morgan Green
ISBN-13: 9780821414026, ISBN-10: 082141402X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Date Published: November 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Laura Morgan Green

Book Synopsis

Green (English, Northeastern U.) seeks to undermine the opposition between the apparent progressivism of a historical narrative of educating women, and the apparent conservatism of a fictional structure of marrying them off. Analyzing both fiction and nonfiction texts of late-19th-century Britain, she looks at the relationship between the movement to establish higher education for women and the profusion of representations of women as students, teachers, or frustrated scholars in domestic novels. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Domesticity and Duplicity: The Rhetoric of the Higher Education Movement	1
2	Living on the Moon: Jane Eyre and the Limits of Self-Education	24
3	From English Governess to Orientalist Scholar: Female Pedagogy and Power in Anna Leonowens's The English Governess at the Siamese Court	46
4	"At once narrow and promiscuous": Emily Davies, George Eliot, and Middlemarch	70
5	"Strange [in]difference of sex": Thomas Hardy and the Temptations of Androgyny	101
	Notes	129
	Works Cited	141
	Index	149