TY - BOOK AU - Michie,Elsie B. TI - Outside the Pale: Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer T2 - Reading Women Writing SN - 9781501724510 AV - PR115 .M46 1993 U1 - 820.9/9287/09034 20 PY - 2018///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - Authors, English KW - 19th century KW - Social conditions KW - Authorship KW - Sex differences KW - English literature KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - Women and literature KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Women authors, English KW - Gender Studies KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: "Excluded from Discourse and Imprisoned within It": The Position of the Nineteenth-Century Woman Writer --; 1. "Matters That Appertain to the Imagination": Accounting for Production in Frankenstein --; 2. "The Yahoo, Not the Demon": Heathcliff, Rochester, and the Simianization of the Irish --; 3. "My Story as My Own Property": Gaskell, Dickens, and the Rhetoric of Prostitution --; 4. "Those That Will Not Work": Prostitutes, Property, Gaskell, and Dickens --; 5. "High Art and Science Always Require the Whole Man": Culture and Menstruation in Middlemarch --; Conclusion: Products, Simians, Prostitutes, and Menstruating Women: What Do They Have in Common? --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access N2 - Elsie B. Michie here provides insightful readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, writers who confronted definitions of femininity which denied them full participation in literary culture. Exploring a series of abhorrent images, Michie traces the links between the Victorian definition of femininity and other forms of cultural exclusion such as race and class distinctions UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501724510 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501724510 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501724510/original ER -