‘I should like to see a woman smoking while she was nursing her baby’: The New Woman, Crossdressing, and Humour in Horace William Bleackley’s Une Culotte (1894)
While the New Woman was often mocked and caricatured as a mannish and destructive figure in the late Victorian press, New Woman writers also used humour to attack the status quo and parry ridicule with ridicule. A case in point is the non-canonical New Woman novel, Une Culotte; or a New Woman, An Im...
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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: | http://journals.openedition.org/cve/11700 |