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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466813903321

Autore

Pennington Heidi L.

Titolo

Creating identity in the Victorian fictional autobiography / / Heidi L. Pennington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, Missouri : , : University of Missouri Press, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

0-8262-7406-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 pages)

Disciplina

823/.0820908

Soggetti

Autobiographical fiction, English - History and criticism

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1-The Victorian Fictional Autobiography in Context: Fiction, Reference, and Reader Expectations -- Chapter 2-The Author and the Reader: The Individual and (as) Narrative Community -- Chapter 3-Domestic Interiors and the Fictionality of the Domestic -- Chapter 4-"To Be Home-sick, One Must Have a Home": Difficult    Domesticity and Controlling Collaboration in Copperfield and Villette -- Coda-Fiction and Selfhood in the Twenty-First Century.

Sommario/riassunto

"This is the first book-length study of the significance of the fictional autobiography in the Victorian understanding of selfhood. Jane Eyre, Villette, David Copperfield, Esther's portions of Bleak House, and other fictional autobiographies of the era subtly but persistently illustrate that all identities are fictions. These works ask readers to rethink the concept of personal identity by showing that our impressions of personal authenticity derive from our own acts of narrative creation. By dramatizing the process of fictional self-making and implicating the reader therein, the fictional autobiography constitutes an important link in the intellectual history of selfhood from pre-Victorian times to the present. In fact, Pennington argues, postmodernism's claims about the constructedness of personal identity represent not a break with



traditional thinking about the self, but rather the culmination of it"--

"This is the first book-length study of the fictional autobiography, a subgenre that is at once widely recognizable and rarely examined as a literary form with its own history and dynamics of interpretation. Heidi L. Pennington shows that the narrative form and genre expectations associated with the fictional autobiography in the Victorian period engages readers in a sustained meditation on the fictional processes that construct selfhood both in and beyond the text. Through close readings of Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, and other well-known examples of the subgenre, Pennington shows how the Victorian fictional autobiography subtly but persistently illustrates that all identities are fictions.  Despite the subgenre's radical implications regarding the nature of personal identity, fictional autobiographies were popular in their own time and continue to inspire devotion in readers. This study sheds new light on what makes this subgenre so compelling, up to and including in the present historical moment of precipitous social and technological change. As we continue to grapple with the existential question of what determines "who we really are," this book explores the risks and rewards of embracing conscious acts of fictional self-production in an unstable world"--



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910582170303321

Autore

Coakley Sarah <1951->

Titolo

Powers and submissions [[electronic resource] ] : spirituality, philosophy and gender / / Sarah Coakley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, UK ; ; Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Publishers, 2002

ISBN

1-281-30943-5

9786611309435

0-470-69340-1

0-470-69268-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Collana

Challenges in contemporary theology

Disciplina

230/.082

291.2082

Soggetti

Feminist theology

Theology

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

POWERS AND SUBMISSIONS; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Prologue: Powers and Submissions; Part I The Contemplative Matrix; 1 Kenosis and Subversion: On the Repression of 'Vulnerability' in Christian Feminist Writing; 2 Traditions of Spiritual Guidance: Dom John Chapman OSB (1865-1933) on the Meaning of 'Contemplation'; 3 Creaturehood Before God: Male and Female; Part II Philosophical Interlocutions; 4 Visions of the Self in Late Medieval Christianity: Some Cross-Disciplinary Reflections

5 Gender and Knowledge in Modern Western Philosophy: The 'Man of Reason' and the 'Feminine' 'Other' in Enlightenment and Romantic Thought6 Analytic Philosophy of Religion in Feminist Perspective: Some Questions; Part III Doctrinal Implications; 7 'Persons' in the 'Social' Doctrine of the Trinity: Current Analytic Discussion and 'Cappadocian' Theology; 8 The Resurrection and the 'Spiritual Senses': On Wittgenstein, Epistemology and the Risen Chnst; 9 The Eschatological Body: Gender, Transformation and God; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

In this book Sarah Coakley confronts a central paradox of theological



feminism - what she terms 'the paradox of power and vulnerability'.:.; Confronts a central paradox of theological feminism – what Coakley terms 'paradox of power and vulnerability'.; Explores this issue through the perspective of spiritual practice, philosophical enquiry and doctrinal analysis.; Draws together an essential collection of Sarah Coakley's work in this field.; Offers an original perspective into contemporary feminist theology.

3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996336269203316

Titolo

Baltimore Jewish times

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Md., : Baltimore Jewish Times, 1962-

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Jewish newspapers - Maryland

Jews - Identity

Jewish newspapers

Newspapers.

Baltimore (Md.) Newspapers

Baltimore County (Md.) Newspapers

Maryland

Maryland Baltimore

Maryland Baltimore County

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico