The Daughters of Danaus
Mona Caird
Edited by Riya Das
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.
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- Includes a critical introduction that reframes the novel as a narrative of female professionalization
- Includes diverse explanatory notes that address references from mythology to historical facts and offers translations as needed, keeping a broad and international student-scholar audience in mind
- Includes appendix consisting of brief excepts from social essays directly relevant to the novel’s thematic focus
Mona Caird’s 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. Das's critical edition was funded full-time by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant from January through June 2024.
Link to purchase (use the code NEW30 to take 30% off): https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-mona-caird-the-daughters-of-danaus
Riya Das is Assistant Professor of English (British/World Literature) at Prairie View A&M University. Das specializes in nineteenth-century British and Anglophone literature with an interest in gender, empire, and narrative form. Das is the author of Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature (Ohio State UP, 2024), which was funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. Her articles have appeared in Victorians Institute Journal, Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom and other venues.
