03032nam 22005895 450 991027234950332120211118201955.01-5017-2800-81-5017-2306-510.7591/9781501723063(CKB)4340000000258218(MiAaPQ)EBC5317525(DE-B1597)496640(OCoLC)1028953696(DE-B1597)9781501723063(EXLCZ)99434000000025821820180924d2018 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierWomen and Romance The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel /Laurie LangbauerIthaca, NY :Cornell University Press,[2018]©19901 online resource (271 pages)Reading Women Writing0-8014-2421-6 0-8014-9692-6 9781501728006 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Foreword --Acknowledgments --Abbreviations --Introduction --1. The Romance of History, or Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny, Sometimes --2. Diverting Romance : Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote --3. An Early Romance: The Ideology of the Body in Mary Wollstonecraft's Writing --4. Streetwalkers and Homebodies: Dickens's Romantic Women --5. Recycling Patriarchy's Garbage: George Eliot's Pessimism and the Problem of a Site for Feminism --Conclusion --Works Cited --IndexAccording to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues in feminist debate, in particular the relations of feminist to the poststructuralist theories of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault. In highlighting questions of gender in this way, Women and Romance contributes to a major debate between skeptical and materialist points of view among poststructuralist critics.Reading women writing.English fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismWomen and literatureGreat BritainHistoryRomanticismGreat BritainSex role in literatureWomen in literatureEnglish fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistory.RomanticismSex role in literature.Women in literature.823.009/9287Langbauer Laurie549504DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910272349503321Women and Romance2425926UNINA