Charlotte Mary Yonge : writing the Victorian age / Clare Walker Gore, Clemence Schultze, Julia Courtney, editors.
Walker Gore, Clare.; Schultze, Clemence.; Courtney, Julia.
2022
PR5914
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Title Charlotte Mary Yonge : writing the Victorian age / Clare Walker Gore, Clemence Schultze, Julia Courtney, editors.
ISBN 9783031106729 (electronic bk.)
3031106725 (electronic bk.)
3031106717
9783031106712
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10672-9
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
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Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-10672-9 doi
Call Number PR5914
Dewey Decimal Classification 823.8
Summary This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the life and work of Charlotte M. Yonge, a highly influential and popular nineteenth-century writer who is emerging from a long period of critical neglect. Its wide-ranging chapters capture the scope and quality of current work in Yonge studies, addressing the full range of her prolific literary output from her best-selling novels to her nature writing, biographies, and letters. Considering themes from gender, disability, and empire, to Tractarianism, secularism, and the idea of progress, these essays consider how Yonge reflected and shaped the tastes, ideas and anxieties of her readers and contemporaries. Exploring her key role in the Anglican revival, her importance as a test case in the development of feminist criticism, and her formal innovativeness as a novelist, this collection places Yonge centrally in the nineteenth-century literary landscape and demonstrates her ongoing relevance to scholars and students of the period. Clare Walker Gore is a lecturer in English Literature at the Open University. She held a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was named a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Her book, Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, appeared in 2019. She is pursuing a project on Victorian women writers. Clemence Schultze is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Classics at Durham University, after a career lecturing on ancient history. She has published on nineteenth-century classical reception, was for ten years Chair of the Charlotte M. Yonge Fellowship, and has co-edited an essay collection on Yonge. Julia Courtney is retired from the Open University where she was an administrator, associate lecturer and research fellow. She has published articles and book chapters on aspects of Victorian literature and culture and has co-edited two essay collections. She is co-editor, with Clemence Schultze, of the Charlotte M. Yonge Fellowship Journal.
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CHARLOTTE MARY YONGE.
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Intro
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chronology
Chapter 1: Introduction
1 Why Revisit Yonge?
2 Involvement with the Oxford Movement
3 Early Life
4 Popular Success
5 Later Career
6 Posthumous Reputation
7 This Collection
Works Cited
Part I: Home and Family
Chapter 2: 'What I Can Myself Remember': Charlotte M. Yonge's Life Writing
1 Introduction
2 'A Native of the Land of Childhood'
3 Rural Riots
4 Later Reflections
Works Cited
Chapter 3: A Woman's Outlook: Charlotte Yonge's Sense of Place

1 Introduction
2 The Herb of the Field: 'Botanizing' and Yonge's Early Nature Writing
3 Later Nature Writing: An Old Woman's Outlook in a Hampshire Village and John Keble's Parishes
4 The Importance of Place in Yonge's Fiction from Abbeychurch to Modern Broods
5 The Two Guardians
or, Home in This World: Wordsworth in Devon?
6 Beechcroft at Rockstone: 'In a Spring-Tide Wood', Tractarian Eco-Theology in Practice
7 Yonge in the Anthropocene: Hopes and Fears for the Future
Works Cited

Chapter 4: Charlotte M. Yonge and the Long Victorian Family: Instructing the 'Mother-Sister'
1 Introduction
2 'Never Mind Sister': The Victorian Mother-Sister and Domestic Authority
3 'More of a Governess and Less of a Sister': Redefining Mother-Sisters in Scenes and Characters
4 Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 5: 'A Lady with a Profession': The Governess, the Invalid, and the Woman Question in the Novels of Charlotte M. Yonge
1 Introduction
2 The Problem of the Governess and the Appeal of the Invalid

3 'A Useful, Steady Daughter and Sister at Home': Domestic Education in The Daisy Chain
4 'The Hot-bed Nurture of Intellect' and 'Concessions to Mental Independence': The Dangerous Governesses of Hopes and Fears
5 'I Only Esteem Both Sisters the More': Praiseworthy Work and the Williams Sisters in The Clever Woman of the Family
Works Cited
Chapter 6: 'Hard Cash is a Necessary Consideration': Money and Class in Charlotte M. Yonge's Novels of Contemporary Family Life
1 Introduction
2 Novels of the 1840s to 1860s
3 The 1870s
4 The 1880s and 1890s
Works Cited

Part II: Society and Ideologies
Chapter 7: 'The Wheels of this World': Science, Enquiry, and Progress in Charlotte Yonge's Novels
1 Introduction
2 Material Advances and the Speed of Change
3 Progress, Politics, and Unbelief in Abbeychurch and Dynevor Terrace
4 Science, Materialism, and Religion
5 Rationalists, Germanists, and Infidels
6 Science, Systems, and Self-Sufficiency
7 Personal Progress: From Self-Sufficiency to Penitence
8 Society and Progress
Works Cited
Chapter 8: Charlotte Mary Yonge and the Concept of Conservative Community
1 Introduction

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