LEADER 03951nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910814229103321 005 20240416151532.0 010 $a0-674-26338-3 010 $a0-674-03679-4 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674036796 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805640 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH21620412 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300505 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300505 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10318501 035 $a(OCoLC)923112093 035 $a(DE-B1597)574560 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674036796 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805640 100 $a19941116d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe gender of modernity /$fRita Felski 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d1995 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 311 $a0-674-34193-7 311 $a0-674-34194-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [213]-240) and index. 327 $aIntroduction - myths of the modern; modernity and feminism; on nostalgia - the prehistoric woman; imagined pleasures - the erotics and aesthetics of consumption; masking masculinity - the feminization of writing; love, God, and the Orient - reading the popular sublime; visions of the new - feminist discourses of evolution and revolution; the art of perversion - female sadists and male cyborgs; afterword - rewriting the modern. 330 $aIn an exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, this work challenges conventional male-centred theories of modernity. It examines the gendered meanings of such notions as nostalgia, consumption, feminine writing, the popular sublime, evolution, revolution and perversion. 330 $bIn an innovative and invigorating exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, Rita Felski challenges conventional male-centered theories of modernity. She also calls into question those feminist perspectives that have either demonized the modern as inherently patriarchal, or else assumed a simple opposition between men's and women's experiences of the modern world. Combining cultural history with cultural theory, and focusing on the fin de siecle, Felski examines the gendered meanings of such notions as nostalgia, consumption, feminine writing, the popular sublime, evolution, revolution, and perversion. Her approach is comparative and interdisciplinary, covering a wide variety of texts from the English, French, and German traditions: sociological theory, realist and naturalist novels, decadent literature, political essays and speeches, sexological discourse, and sentimental popular fiction. Male and female writers from Simmel, Zola, Sacher-Masoch, and Rachilde to Marie Corelli, Wilde, and Olive Schreiner come under Felski's scrutiny as she exposes the varied and often contradictory connections between femininity and modernity. Seen through the lens of Felski's discerning eye, the last fin de siecle provides illuminating parallels with our own. And Felski's keen analysis of the matrix of modernism offers needed insight into the sense of cultural crisis brought on by postmodernism. 606 $aFeminist theory 606 $aCivilization, Modern$y19th century 606 $aCivilization, Modern$y20th century 606 $aWomen and literature 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aFeminist criticism 615 0$aFeminist theory. 615 0$aCivilization, Modern 615 0$aCivilization, Modern 615 0$aWomen and literature. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aFeminist criticism. 676 $a306 700 $aFelski$b Rita$f1956-$0742789 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814229103321 996 $aThe gender of modernity$94105545 997 $aUNINA