Table of Contents

Introduction

The New, but New with G*d

Elena V. Shabliy

Chapter 1

Women’s Labor Activism in the Progressive Era and Marie Van Vorst’s Amanda of the Mill as a Social Propaganda Tool

Emine Gecgil

Chapter 2

"I have been wronged, and I long to right myself at once": Revenge, Deceit and Female Power in Louisa May Alcott’s Sensational Short Fiction

Evangelia Kindinger

Chapter 3

Who’s Afraid of Women Photographers? Redefining Gender, Gaze, and Photography in Amy Levy’s The Romance of a Shop

Mavis Chia-Chieh Tseng

Chapter 4

Rediscovering London in Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern Woman

Sun Jai Kim

Chapter 5

The First "New Woman" in Modern Hebrew Literature: Finalia Adelberg in Love of The Righteous, or, The Persecuted Families by Sarah Feiga Meinkin

Michal Fram Cohen

Chapter 6

Gendering the Empire: The Discourse on the New Woman and Emergence of Ottoman Feminism, 1860-1918

Burcin Cakir

Chapter 7

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda: A Feminist Life and its Discourse

Laureano Corces

Chapter 8

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Two Fin de Siècle Women Writers

Afrin Zeenat

Chapter 9

Women’s Roles in Mass Literacy, Production, and Sensation in George Gissing’s New Grub Street

Robin M. Mako Citarella

Conclusion

About the Author

Elena V. Shabliy is a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University.

Dmitry Kurochkin is a Research Associate at Harvard University.

Karen O’Donnell is the CODEC Research Fellow at Durham University.