Miss-Taken Identities: The Comedy of Misrecognition in New Woman Short Stories
This essay will illuminate a surprisingly common trope in British New Woman comic short stories from the late-1880s through the end of the nineteenth century—that is, the social misrecognition of women (almost always young women) by men. Often, this misidentification takes a class-based turn, with m...
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| Main Author: | Margaret D. Stetz |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2022-10-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cve/11623 |
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