| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Series |
Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature ; v. 12 |
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Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature ; v. 12.
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| Contents |
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 -- 5. Tess, tourism, and the spectacle of the woman / Jeff Nunokawa -- 6. '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 taste / 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 |
| Summary |
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 V |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Börngen, ... gnd |
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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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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Sex role in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature -- Theory, etc.
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Feminism and literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Women and literature.
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Englisch
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Feminismus
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Frauenbewegung
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Geschlechterverhältnis
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Geschlechterrolle
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Great Britain.
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England
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shires, Linda M., 1950-
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| ISBN |
9780203120446 |
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0203120442 |
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9781136321320 |
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1136321322 |
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9781136321276 |
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1136321276 |
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9781136321313 |
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1136321314 |
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9780415752374 |
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041575237X |
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