Chapter 7 Welsh Women's Industrial Fiction 1880-1910
From the beginning of the genre, women writers have made a major contribution to the development of industrial writing. Although prevented from gaining first-hand experience of the coalface, Welsh women writers were amongst the first to try to fictionalize those heavy industries—coal and metal in th...
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| description | From the beginning of the genre, women writers have made a major contribution to the development of industrial writing. Although prevented from gaining first-hand experience of the coalface, Welsh women writers were amongst the first to try to fictionalize those heavy industries—coal and metal in the south, and slate in the north—which dominated the lives of the majority of the late nineteenth-century Welsh population. Treatment of industrial matter is generally fragmentary in this early women’s writing; industrial imagery and metaphor may be used in novels that are not primarily “about” industry at all. Yet from c. 1880–1910, Welsh women writers made a significant—and hitherto critically neglected—attempt to make sense in literature of contemporary industrial Wales in powerful and innovative ways. This essay maps their contribution and considers anglophone Welsh women writers’ adaptations and innovations of form (particularly romance) as they try to find a way of representing industrial landscapes, communities and the daily realities of industrial labour. It identifies the genesis in women’s writing of tropes that would become central to later industrial fiction, including depictions of industrial accident, injury, death and disability. And it explores the representation of social relations (class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality) and conflict on this tumultuous, dangerous new stage. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-382852025-03-23T15:54:55Z Chapter 7 Welsh Women's Industrial Fiction 1880-1910 Bohata, Kirsti Jones, Alexandra 1914 Aaron before Jane Wales Women's Writing thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies From the beginning of the genre, women writers have made a major contribution to the development of industrial writing. Although prevented from gaining first-hand experience of the coalface, Welsh women writers were amongst the first to try to fictionalize those heavy industries—coal and metal in the south, and slate in the north—which dominated the lives of the majority of the late nineteenth-century Welsh population. Treatment of industrial matter is generally fragmentary in this early women’s writing; industrial imagery and metaphor may be used in novels that are not primarily “about” industry at all. Yet from c. 1880–1910, Welsh women writers made a significant—and hitherto critically neglected—attempt to make sense in literature of contemporary industrial Wales in powerful and innovative ways. This essay maps their contribution and considers anglophone Welsh women writers’ adaptations and innovations of form (particularly romance) as they try to find a way of representing industrial landscapes, communities and the daily realities of industrial labour. It identifies the genesis in women’s writing of tropes that would become central to later industrial fiction, including depictions of industrial accident, injury, death and disability. And it explores the representation of social relations (class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality) and conflict on this tumultuous, dangerous new stage. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-11-12 12:10:19 2020-04-01T09:30:37Z 2019 chapter 1006292 OCN: 1135854436 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23846 9780429330865 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38285 eng Historical Women's Writing open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/23846/1/9780367353483_oachapter7.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/23846/1/9780367353483_oachapter7.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/23846/1/9780367353483_oachapter7.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/23846/1/9780367353483_oachapter7.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/23846/1/9780367353483_oachapter7.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.1080/09699082.2016.1268346 10.1080/09699082.2016.1268346 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Women’s Writing from Wales before 1914 9780429330865 Routledge 18 open access |
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