Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780807846247 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 224 str.

Susan David Bernstein

Opis

This text examines the gendered power relationships embedded in confessional literature of the Victorian period. Based on cultural criticism, poststructuralism and feminist theory, Bernstein's analysis constitutes a reassessment of Freud's and Foucault's theories of confession.