1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456213603321

Autore

Merritt Juliette

Titolo

Beyond spectacle : Eliza Haywood's female spectators / / Juliette Merritt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

1-4426-7137-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Disciplina

823/.5

Soggetti

Gaze in literature

Women in literature

LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction Gazing in the Eighteenth Century: Eliza Haywood's Specular Negotiations -- Chapter One. An Excess of Spectacle: The Failure of Female Curiosity in Love in Excess; or, The Fatal Enquiry -- Chapter Two. Peepers, Picts, and Female Masquerade: Performances of the Female Gaze in Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze -- Chapter Three. From Image to Text: The Discourse of Abandonment and Textual Agency in The British Recluse; or, The Secret History of Cleomira, Supposed Dead -- Chapter Four. The Spectatorial Text: Spying, Writing, Authority in The Invisible Spy and Bath Intrigues -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Theories of sight and spectatorship captivated many writers and philosophers of the eighteenth century and, in turn, helped to define both sexual politics and gender identity. Eliza Haywood was thoroughly engaged in the social, philosophical, and political issues of her time, and she wrote prolifically about them, producing over seventy-five works of literature ? plays, novels, and pamphlets ? during her lifetime. Examining a number of works from this prodigious canon, Juliette Merritt focuses on Haywood's consideration of the myriad issues surrounding sight and seeing and argues that Haywood explored



strategies to undermine the conventional male spectator/female spectacle structure of looking.Combining close readings of Haywood's work with twentieth-century debates among feminist and psychoanalytic theorists concerning the visual dynamics of identity and gender formation, Merritt explores insights into how the gaze operates socially, epistemologically, and ontologically in Haywood's writing, ultimately concluding that Haywood's own strategy as an author involved appropriating the spectator position as a means of exercising female power. Beyond Spectacle will cement Haywood's deservedly prominent place in the canon of eighteenth-century fiction and position her as a writer whose work speaks not only to female agency, but to eighteenth-century writers, gender relations, and power politics as well.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462618303321

Autore

Lawtoo Nidesh

Titolo

The phantom of the ego : modernism and the mimetic unconscious / / Nidesh Lawtoo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-62895-042-0

1-60917-388-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Collana

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture series

Disciplina

809/.9112

Soggetti

Modernism (Literature)

Mimesis

Ego (Psychology) in literature

Literature - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Pathos of Distance; Mimetic Patho(-)logies; Ancient Quarrels, Modern Reconciliations; The Mimetic Unconscious; Diagnostic Program; Chapter 1. Nietzsche's Mimetic Patho



(-)logy: From Antiquity to Modernity; The Phantom; The Logos of Sympathy; Beyond the Rivalry Principle; Nietzsche's Platonism; Psycho-Physiology of the Modern Soul; Prophet of Nazism?; Chapter 2. Conrad and the Horror of Modernity; Apocalypse Now in the Classroom; An Outpost of Regress; Heart of Darkness and the Horror of Mimesis; Chapter 3. D. H. Lawrence and the Dissolution of the Ego

Ghostly ReappearancesPrimitivist Participation; The Birth of the Ideal Ego; Mass Patho(-)logy Reloaded; Lawrence contra Freud; Chapter 4. Bataille's Mimetic Communication; Phantom Matador; Enlightening Fascist Psychology; Anthropological Effervescence; The Freudian Triangle; Sovereign Communication, Unconscious Imitation; The Psychology of the Future; Coda. Mimetic Theory Revisited; Modernism and Mimetic Theory; The Laughter of Community; The Center Does Not Hold; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Phantom of the Ego is the first comparative study that shows how the modernist account of the unconscious anticipates contemporary discoveries about the importance of mimesis in the formation of subjectivity. Rather than beginning with Sigmund Freud as the father of modernism, Nidesh Lawtoo starts with Friedrich Nietzsche's antimetaphysical diagnostic of the ego, his realization that mimetic reflexes-from sympathy to hypnosis, to contagion, to crowd behavior-move the soul, and his insistence that psychology informs philosophical reflection. Through a transdisciplinary, co