03202nam 2200733 a 450 991082604000332120200520144314.00-520-92583-11-59734-964-X10.1525/9780520925830(CKB)111056485641996(EBL)223116(OCoLC)475927145(SSID)ssj0000261848(PQKBManifestationID)11193453(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000261848(PQKBWorkID)10269267(PQKB)10238694(MiAaPQ)EBC223116(DE-B1597)647621(DE-B1597)9780520925830(EXLCZ)9911105648564199620000615d2001 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe trauma of gender a feminist theory of the English novel /Helene Moglen1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20011 online resource (228 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-22588-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index.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; IndexHelene 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.English fiction18th centuryHistory and criticismFeminism and literatureGreat BritainHistory18th centuryEnglish fictionMale authorsHistory and criticismFeminist fiction, EnglishHistory and criticismSex role in literatureSex in literatureGender identity in literatureFeminist literary criticismWomen in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Feminism and literatureHistoryEnglish fictionMale authorsHistory and criticism.Feminist fiction, EnglishHistory and criticism.Sex role in literature.Sex in literature.Gender identity in literature.Feminist literary criticism.Women in literature.823/.509353Moglen Helene1936-1752824MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826040003321The trauma of gender4188307UNINA