Rewriting the Victorians: Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender

ISBN-13: 9780415752374 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014

Linda M. Shires

Opis

This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyses power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This volume reshapes Victorian studies from the perspective of the postmodern return to history, and is variously influenced by Marxism and post-structuralist theories of language and subjectivity.

Spis treści

1. Engendering History for the Middle Class: Sex and Political Economy in the Edinburgh Review  2. From Trope to Code: The Novel and the Rhetoric of Gender in Nineteenth-century Critical Discourse  3. Demonic Mothers: Ideologies of Bourgeois Motherhood in the Mid-Victorian Era  4. Water Rights and the "Crossing o’ Breeds": Chiastic Exchange in The Mill on the Floss  5. Tess, Tourism, and the Spectacle of the Woman  6. "To Tell the Truth of Sex": Confession and Abjection in Late Victorian Writing  7. Reading the Gothic Revival: "History" and Hints on Household Taste  8. Excluding Women: The Cult of the Male Genius in Victorian Painting  9. Of Maenads, Mothers, and Feminized Males: Victorian Readings of the French Revolution  10. The "Female Paternalist" as Historian: Elizabeth Gaskell’s My Lady Ludlow. Afterword: Ideology and the Subject as Agent

O autorze

Linda M. Shires is Professor and Chair of theEnglish Department atStern College, Yeshiva University, New York.