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Women and Romance : The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel / / Laurie Langbauer



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Autore: Langbauer Laurie Visualizza persona
Titolo: Women and Romance : The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel / / Laurie Langbauer Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1990
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 pages)
Disciplina: 823.009/9287
Soggetto topico: English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism
Women and literature - Great Britain - History
Romanticism - Great Britain
Sex role in literature
Women in literature
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: According 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Women and Romance  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5017-2800-8
1-5017-2306-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910272349503321
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Serie: Reading women writing.