The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities: Identities

ISBN-13: 9781138440128 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 376 str.

Dennis Walder

Opis

This work provides a starting point for understanding gender in the novels of this period. It explores the place of fiction in constructing gender identity within society at large, considering "Madame Bovary", "Portrait of a Lady" and "The Woman in White".

Spis treści

PART 1 Introduction to part 1 CHAPTER 1 Madame Bovary : a novel about nothing CHAPTER 2 Madame Bovary : becoming a heroine CHAPTER 3 7#£ Woman in White: sensationalism, secrets and spying CHAPTER 4 Drawing a blank: the construction of identity in The Woman in White CHAPTER 5 The Portrait of a Lady and the 'house of fiction' CHAPTER 6 The Portrait of a Lady : identity and gender CHAPTER 7 'The art of fiction' : Henry James as critic CHAPTER 8 Books and their readers - part 1 PART 2 Introduction to part 2 CHAPTER 9 Dracula-, a fin-de-siècle fantasy CHAPTER 10 Dracula: narrative strategies and nineteenth-century fears CHAPTER 11 The Awakening, identities CHAPTER 12 The Awakening, contexts CHAPTER 13 Joseph Conrad and the imperial vision: Heart of Darkness CHAPTER 14 Heart of Darkness: plots, parallels and post-colonialism CHAPTER 15 Books and their readers - part 2

O autorze

Emeritus Professor of Literature- Dennis Walder, The Open University, UK