Mona Caird, the Daughters of Danaus - (Edinburgh Critical Editions of Nineteenth-Century Texts) (Hardcover)

About the Book

A fully annotated edition of Mona Caird's immensely successful novel, The Daughters of Danaus, that reframes the novel as a narrative of female professionalisation.

Book Synopsis

Mona Caird's immensely successful feminist novel, The Daughters of Danaus (1894), remains a popular choice among scholars and teachers of nineteenth-century British literature. This is the first critical edition and the first twenty-first century reprint of Caird's novel with a full editorial apparatus including a critical introduction, notes and appendices. Informed by the novel's fin-de-siècle context, references to Greek mythology and recent scholarship on Caird and the New Woman, this edition will be beneficial for students and scholars of British and Anglophone literature and gender.