Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists

ISBN-13: 9780333655771 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 236 str.

Donald E. Hall; D. Hall

Opis

Explores representations of "monstrous" women in mid-Victorian literature, tracing male responses to the feminist movement of the era. This text argues that Victorian patriarchy was a fluid theory and set of practices through which Victorian men attempted unsuccessfully to fix gender definitions.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Female Trouble: Nineteenth-Century Feminism and a Literature of Threat - PART 1: THE 1840s - 'Betsy Prig...try the cowcumbers, God Bless You!': Hierarchy, Transgression, and Trouble in Martin Chuzzlewit - Reading Tennyson Reading Fuller Reading Tennyson: The Anti-Feminism of The Princess - Kingsley as Negotiator: Class/Gender Discord/Discourse in Yeast and Alton Locke - PART 2: THE 1850s - Gender in the Marketplace: Contestation and Accommodation in Thackeray's The Newcomes - 'None of your eyes at me': The Patriarchal Gaze in Little Dorrit - Becoming One's Own Worst Enemy: Muscular Anxiety in Tom Brown's Schooldays - PART 3: THE 1860s - From Margin to Centre: Agency and Authority in the Novels of Wilkie Collins - Great Expectations and Harsh Realities - Conclusion: Trollope on Women/Women in Trollope - Works Cited

O autorze

DONALD E. HALL is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of English at California State University, Northridge, where he teaches Victorian literature, feminist theory, and queer studies. He is the author of Muscular Christianity: Embodying the Victorian Age, and co-editor of RePresenting Bisexualities.