Modernism and the Women's Popular Romance in Britain, 1885-1925(English, Electronic book text, Hipsky Martin)

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Modernism and the Women's Popular Romance in Britain, 1885-1925(English, Electronic book text, Hipsky Martin) is written by Hipsky Martin and published by Ohio University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0821443771 (ISBN 10) and 9780821443774 (ISBN 13).

Today's mass-market romances have their precursors in late Victorian popular novels written by and for women. In Modernism and the Women's Popular Romance Martin Hipsky scrutinizes some of the best-selling British fiction from the period 1885 to 1925, the era when romances, especially those by British women, were sold and read more widely than ever before or since. Recent scholarship has explored the desires and anxieties addressed by both "low modern" and "high modernist" British culture in the decades straddling the turn of the twentieth century. In keeping with these new studies, Hipsky offers a nuanced portrait of an important phenomenon in the history of modern fiction. He puts popular romances by Mrs. Humphry Ward, Marie Corelli, the Baroness Orczy, Florence Barclay, Rebecca West, Elinor Glyn, Victoria Cross, Ethel Dell, and E. M. Hull into direct relationship with the fiction of Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, and D. H. Lawrence, among other modernist greats.