ISBN:
9780203120446
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1283586398
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9781283586399
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1136321322
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9780415521734
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9781136321320
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 196 p
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Rewriting the Victorians RLE
DDC:
305.309034
Keywords:
English literature ; 19th century ; History and criticism ; Theory, etc
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Feminism and literature ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century
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Great Britain ; Civilization ; 19th century
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Politics and literature ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century
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Sex role in literature
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Social problems in literature
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Women and literature ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyzes power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This volume is the first to reshape Victorian studies from the perspective of the postmodern return to history, and is variously influenced by Marxism, sociology, anthropology, and post-structuralist theories of language and subjectivity. It analyzes the struggle for legitimacy and recognition in Victorian institutions and the struggle over meanings in ideological representation of the gendered subject in texts.Contributors cover diverse topics, including Victorian i
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; New: Rewriting the Victorians; New: Copyright Page; Old: Rewriting the Victorians; Old: Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Engendering history for the middle class: sex and political economy in the Edinburgh Review: Judith Newton; 2. From trope to code: the novel and the rhetoric of gender in nineteenth-century critical discourse: Ina Ferris; 3. Demonic mothers: ideologies of bourgeois motherhood in the mid-Victorian era: Sally Shuttleworth; 4. Water rights and the ""crossing o' breeds"": chiastic exchange in The Mill on the Floss: Jules Law
Description / Table of Contents:
5. Tess, tourism, and the spectacle of the woman: Jeff Nunokawa6. ""To tell the truth of sex"": confession and abjection in late Victorian writing: Marion Shaw; 7. Reading the Gothic revival: ""History"" and Hints on Household Tasre: Christina Crosby; 8. Excluding women: the cult of the male genius in Victorian painting: Susan P. Casteras; 9. Of maenads, mothers, and feminized males: Victorian readings of the French Revolution: Linda M. Shires; 10. The ""female paternalist"" as historian: Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow: Christine L. Krueger
Description / Table of Contents:
Afterword: ideology and the subject as agent: Linda M. ShiresIndex
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Available via World Wide Web
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