Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and CultureUniv of North Carolina Press, 1997 - 206 strán (strany) Susan Bernstein examines the gendered power relationships embedded in confessional literature of the Victorian period. Exploring this dynamic in Charlotte Bronta's Villette, Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, George Eliot's Da |
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Strana iv
... England - History - 19th century . 7. Great Britain - Civilization - 19th century . 8. Power ( Social sciences ) in literature . 9. Sex roles in literature . I. Title . PR788.C56B47 1997 828'.80809353 - dc20 96-23854 CIP 01 00 99 98 97 ...
... England - History - 19th century . 7. Great Britain - Civilization - 19th century . 8. Power ( Social sciences ) in literature . 9. Sex roles in literature . I. Title . PR788.C56B47 1997 828'.80809353 - dc20 96-23854 CIP 01 00 99 98 97 ...
Strana xii
... England . Instead of reworking these recent portrayals of confessional subjects— women who disclose violations and the substance of these misdeeds — I want only to gesture toward the analogy to suggest that the ambiguities of power ...
... England . Instead of reworking these recent portrayals of confessional subjects— women who disclose violations and the substance of these misdeeds — I want only to gesture toward the analogy to suggest that the ambiguities of power ...
Strana 2
... England in which women are not accorded by law or by custom much opportunity to act on their own behalf , such agency seems ironic at best . Accordingly , I find confessional modes in general , as well as the specific Victorian scenes ...
... England in which women are not accorded by law or by custom much opportunity to act on their own behalf , such agency seems ironic at best . Accordingly , I find confessional modes in general , as well as the specific Victorian scenes ...
Strana 6
... England suggests that confession is a rather un - Victorian ac- tivity . This repudiation also reveals a general cultural discomfort with overt self - expression and public display ; such disavowal of the revelatory clarifies why ...
... England suggests that confession is a rather un - Victorian ac- tivity . This repudiation also reveals a general cultural discomfort with overt self - expression and public display ; such disavowal of the revelatory clarifies why ...
Strana 10
... England , I explore ways propaganda against the Roman church characterized the enterprise of confession as an assault on the sanctity of English domesticity . Framed by the Oxford movement and the advent of Freudian psychoanalysis , the ...
... England , I explore ways propaganda against the Roman church characterized the enterprise of confession as an assault on the sanctity of English domesticity . Framed by the Oxford movement and the advent of Freudian psychoanalysis , the ...
Obsah
theorizing Confession Gendering Confession | 15 |
Histories and Fictions of Victorian Confession AntiCatholic Rhetoric and Villette | 41 |
That Narrow Boundry Line Figures of Female Degeneracy and Lady Audleys Secret | 73 |
The Bonds and Bondage of Gender and Race Paternal Metaphors of Confession in Daniel Deronda | 105 |
The UnIntact State Tess of the dUrbervilles and Confessions of Sexual and Textual Violence | 143 |
Notes | 165 |
Bibliography | 191 |
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Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian ... Susan David Bernstein Obmedzený náhľad - 2000 |
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anti-Catholic Audley authority Awful Disclosures body BONDAGE OF GENDER BONDS AND BONDAGE Braddon Brontë Catholicism chapter Charlotte Brontë confession scene confessional subjects d'Urbervilles Daniel Deronda dead face domestic domination edited Eliot England English father confessor female femininity Feminism feminist fession figure Foucault Freud GENDER AND RACE George Eliot Grandcourt Gwendolen's Hardy Hardy's heroine HISTORIES AND FICTIONS husband Ibid identity ideological imperialism insanity Jewish Jews Lacan Lady Audley's confession Lady Audley's Secret Leonora London Labour Lucy Lucy's male Maria Monk marriage masculine material Mayhew Mirah moral murder narrative NARROW BOUNDARY LINE NOTES TO PAGES novel paternal law paternal metaphor patriarchal Père Silas political position power relations priest prostitution Protestant psychoanalysis rape reading religious representations repression resistance rhetorical Roman Catholic church Rome sensation sexual violence signifies social story Tess Tess's confession testimony textual THEORIZING CONFESSION theory tion transgression tropes truth UN-INTACT University Press Victorian culture Villette violation woman women