“Significant Negatives”: Genre and Ethics in Alice Meynell’s Familiar Essays, 1893–1909

In this article I present a re-evaluation of the work of the prominent female Aesthete, Alice Meynell. While much of the critical writing on Meynell discusses her poetry, I contribute to a small body of work that focuses on her prose. I argue that Meynell’s essay collections of 1893–1909 constitute...

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Main Author: Rachel O’Connell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2011-11-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/1046