Victorian Women and Wayward Reading: Crises of Identification

ISBN-13: 9781108496162 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 250 str.

Marisa Palacios Knox

Opis

Explains how Victorian women readers strategically identified with literature to defy stereotypes and inspire their action and creativity.

Recenzje

'Thoroughly researched and written in a lucid prose that highlights Knox's sharp readings, this book will be of particular interest to those workingon Victorian narrative, sensation,and theatre.' Robert Laurella, Women's Writing

Spis treści

1. Masculine identification and marital dissolution; 2. Novels without heroines: sensation and elective identification; 3. Character invasion and the Victorian actress 4. Antipathetic telepathy: female mediums and reading the enemy; 5. 'The valley of the shadow of books': the morbidity of female detachment; 6. The new crisis: can we teach identification?