George Egerton: Feminism and the Avant-garde in English End of the Century Narrative
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George Egerton, nueva mujer, heroína, feminismoAbstract
George Egerton was a controversial but very popular English-language writer in the turn of the century. It belonged to the phenomenon called "New Woman", formed by artists who placed women at the center of their works. Egerton created a new type of heroine, modern and unconventional, and a new type of narrative anticipating feminism and modernism in literature.Downloads
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Accepted 2019-07-15
Published 2019-08-12
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