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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... character's confession also bespeaks a masculine entitlement to write her history . Of a piece with Tess's foreclosed confession , her voice is quelled repeatedly beneath her husband's version of her autobiography . This crucial power ...
... character's confession also bespeaks a masculine entitlement to write her history . Of a piece with Tess's foreclosed confession , her voice is quelled repeatedly beneath her husband's version of her autobiography . This crucial power ...
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... character's confession poses a kind of challenge or testimony to forces of domination are often places where ... characters confess acts figured as sexual because these acts encompass a struggle over domina- tion . In the material I ...
... character's confession poses a kind of challenge or testimony to forces of domination are often places where ... characters confess acts figured as sexual because these acts encompass a struggle over domina- tion . In the material I ...
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... characters confess to male characters who hold a familial relationship , typically the most viable candidate for ... character seems to occupy both positions of subject and object of violence . In the chapters that follow , I am ...
... characters confess to male characters who hold a familial relationship , typically the most viable candidate for ... character seems to occupy both positions of subject and object of violence . In the chapters that follow , I am ...
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... characters in the other novels seems unrelated to sexual transgression . Here it is useful to bear in mind that in Victorian culture any expression of passion is troped as sexual desire.13 Such passion may be construed as a yearning for ...
... characters in the other novels seems unrelated to sexual transgression . Here it is useful to bear in mind that in Victorian culture any expression of passion is troped as sexual desire.13 Such passion may be construed as a yearning for ...
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... characters as confes- sional subjects who are variously regarded as immoral , insane , rhetorically inexplicable . Embarking on explicitly fictional accounts of women as confes- sional subjects , I conclude Chapter 2 through a ...
... characters as confes- sional subjects who are variously regarded as immoral , insane , rhetorically inexplicable . Embarking on explicitly fictional accounts of women as confes- sional subjects , I conclude Chapter 2 through a ...
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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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