Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth by Nina Auerbach

Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth

Nina Auerbach

272 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history adventurous challenging mysterious slow-paced

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Here is a bold new vision of Victorianculture: a study of myths of womanhoodthat shatters the usual generalizationsabout the squeezed, crushed, and ego-less Victorian woman.Through copious examples drawn fromliterature, art, and biography, Auerbac...

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