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 ix
... effects of this personal criticism , which I labeled a " confessional mode " because of the way autobiographical disclosure functions as an intrusion where the subject attention shifts from Lacan's texts to the narrating subject . It ...
... effects of this personal criticism , which I labeled a " confessional mode " because of the way autobiographical disclosure functions as an intrusion where the subject attention shifts from Lacan's texts to the narrating subject . It ...
Strana 2
... effect of power , " an obligatory act of speech . " At the same time , power is an effect of discourse ; it can be located through the presumption of narrative authority , the ability to control and to circulate stories . Beyond ...
... effect of power , " an obligatory act of speech . " At the same time , power is an effect of discourse ; it can be located through the presumption of narrative authority , the ability to control and to circulate stories . Beyond ...
Strana 3
... effect of power whereby cultural forces permit and police representations of sexuality — specifically , the transgressions of sex- uality that " confession " implies — into discourse . Perhaps it seems an anachro- nism to invoke the ...
... effect of power whereby cultural forces permit and police representations of sexuality — specifically , the transgressions of sex- uality that " confession " implies — into discourse . Perhaps it seems an anachro- nism to invoke the ...
Strana 6
... effects . In Repression in Victorian Fiction , John Kucich remarks on this antipathy toward confession as " the nineteenth - century cultural decision to value silenced or negated feeling over affirmed feeling , and the corresponding ...
... effects . In Repression in Victorian Fiction , John Kucich remarks on this antipathy toward confession as " the nineteenth - century cultural decision to value silenced or negated feeling over affirmed feeling , and the corresponding ...
Strana 9
... effects of the texts I consider here , it is possible to chart how violence and women , how violent women as " confessional subjects , " can be read as transgressive and as transgressed against . Because I am interested in signification ...
... effects of the texts I consider here , it is possible to chart how violence and women , how violent women as " confessional subjects , " can be read as transgressive and as transgressed against . Because I am interested in signification ...
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 |
199 | |
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Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian ... Susan David Bernstein Obmedzený náhľad - 2000 |
Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian ... Susan David Bernstein Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1997 |
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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