Margaret Harkness : writing social engagement 1880-1921 /
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| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century (Series)
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Chronology of Margaret Harkness's life; Margaret Harkness's connections; Selected works by Margaret Harkness; Note on texts cited; List of abbreviations; Introduction: rethinking Margaret Harkness's significance in political and literary history; Part I: Harkness's life and work; A law unto herself: the solitary odyssey of M.E. Harkness; Absent character: from Margaret Harkness to John Law; Part II: In Harkness's London; Walking Margaret Harkness's London.
- The problem of leisure/what to do for pleasure': women and leisure time in A City Girl (1887) and In Darkest London (1891)The vicissitudes of victory: Margaret Harkness, George Eastmont, Wanderer (1905), and the 1889 Dockworkers' Strike; Part III: Harkness and genre: rethinking slum fiction; Soundscapes of the city in Margaret Harkness, A City Girl (1887), Henry James, The Princess Casamassima (1885-86), and Katharine Buildings, Whitechapel; Margaret Harkness, novelist: social semantics and experiments in fiction; 'Connie': melodrama and Tory socialism.
- Part IV: Personal influences: Harkness and her contemporariesSocialism, suffering, and religious mystery: Margaret Harkness and Olive Schreiner; Margaret Harkness, W.T. Stead, and the transatlantic social gospel network; Part V: After London: Harkness's life and work in the twentieth century; Through the mill: Margaret Harkness on conjectural history and utilitarian philosophy; Lasting ties: Margaret Harkness, the Salvation Army, and A Curate's Promise (1921); Index.