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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462444103321

Titolo

Rewriting the Victorians : theory, history, and the politics of gender / / edited by Linda M. Shires

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-58639-8

9786613898845

0-203-12044-2

1-136-32132-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature ; ; v. 12

Altri autori (Persone)

ShiresLinda M. <1950->

Disciplina

305.309034

820.9/008

820.9008

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Feminism and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Social problems in literature

Sex role in literature

Electronic books.

Great Britain Civilization 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1992 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

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

Afterword: ideology and the subject as agent: Linda M. ShiresIndex

Sommario/riassunto

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