LEADER 04440nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910959123203321 005 20251117003542.0 010 $a0-8214-4164-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000713963 035 $a(OCoLC)80242483 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10118466 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000432256 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11316008 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000432256 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10493923 035 $a(PQKB)10341827 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3026859 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3026859 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10118466 035 $a(BIP)9142703 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000713963 100 $a20031211d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSubjects on display $epsychoanalysis, social expectation, and Victorian femininity /$fBeth Newman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAthens $cOhio University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (202 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8214-1548-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 173-181) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Display, Invisibility, and the Victorian Feminine Ideal -- 2 The Uses of Obscurity -- 3 Display and the Body from David Copperfield to Bleak House -- 4 George Eliot's Exhibitionist Desire -- 5 Getting Fixed -- 6 The Subject of Display in Theory and History -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. 330 $aSubjects on Display Explores A Recurrent Figure at the heart of many nineteenth-century English novels; the retiring, self-effacing woman who is conspicuous by her inconspicuousness. Beth Newman draws upon both psychoanalytic theory and recent work in social history as she argues that this paradoxical figure, who often triumpha over more dazzling, eye-catching rivals, is a response to the forces that made personal display a vexed issue for Victorian women. Chief among these is the changing socioeconomic landacape in which the ideal of the modest woman outlived its usefulness as a class signifier even as it continued to exert moral authority. The problem cannot be grasped in its full complexity, Newman shows, without considering how the unstable social meanings of display interacted with psychical forces - specifically, the desire to be aeen by others. feminist theorists have been reluctant to address it. Nor has it been explored in contemporary scholarship on vision and visuality, which tends to identify subjectivity with the position of the observer rather than the observed. Through a consideration of fiction by Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James, Newman shifts the inquiry toward the observed in the experience of being seen. In the process, she reopens the question of the gaze and its relation to subjectivity. Subjects on Display will appeal to scholars and students in several disciplines as it returns psychoanalysis to a central position within literary and cultural studies. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aPsychoanalysis and literature$zGreat Britain 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPsychological fiction, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAssertiveness (Psychology) in literature 606 $aExpectation (Psychology) in literature 606 $aBashfulness in literature 606 $aFemininity in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 606 $aAssertiveness in women 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aPsychoanalysis and literature 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aPsychological fiction, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAssertiveness (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aExpectation (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aBashfulness in literature. 615 0$aFemininity in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 615 0$aAssertiveness in women. 676 $a823/.8093522 700 $aNewman$b Beth$f1955-$01871217 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910959123203321 996 $aSubjects on display$94479932 997 $aUNINA