The Trauma of Gender [[electronic resource] ] : A Feminist Theory of the English Novel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455035603321
• Autore: Moglen Helene <1936->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0-520-92583-1; 1-59734-964-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (228 p.)
• Disciplina: 823.009355; 823/.509353
• Soggetti: English fiction; English fiction-- 18th century-- History and criticism; Feminism and literature; Feminism and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Feminist literary criticism; Gender identity in literature; Sex in literature; Sex role in literature; Women in literature; English fiction - History and criticism - 18th century - Great Britain; Feminism and literature - History - 18th century; English fiction - History and criticism - Male authors; Feminist fiction, English - History and criticism; English Literature; English; Languages & Literatures; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Gender Politics of Narrative Modes; 1. Daniel Defoe and the Gendered Subject of Individualism; 2. Clarissa and the Pornographic Imagination; 3. (W)holes and Noses: The ; Indeterminacies of Tristram Shandy; 4. Horace Walpole and the Nightmare of History; Conclusion: The Relation of Fiction and Theory; Notes; Works Cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Helene Moglen offers a revisionary feminist argument about the origins, cultural function, and formal structure of the English novel. While most critics and historians have associated the novel's emergence and development with the burgeoning of capitalism and the rise of the middle classes, Moglen contends that the novel princi- pally came into being in order to manage the social and psychological strains of the modern sex-gender system.