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 x
... notion of obligation tend to mystify the power dynamics and the politics of confession ? And , finally , what discrete forces foster this impulse to confess in the first place ? Why not keep quiet ? For the very question of power is ...
... notion of obligation tend to mystify the power dynamics and the politics of confession ? And , finally , what discrete forces foster this impulse to confess in the first place ? Why not keep quiet ? For the very question of power is ...
Strana xii
... notions about motherhood , about marriage and the unstinting sexual and emotional availability of the ideal wife , or her counterpart , the woman as whore . The important historical link here is that confessing women still involves a ...
... notions about motherhood , about marriage and the unstinting sexual and emotional availability of the ideal wife , or her counterpart , the woman as whore . The important historical link here is that confessing women still involves a ...
Strana 5
... notion of " gender trouble . " Butler argues against reifying the binary opposition of man / woman as she repeatedly ... notions of femininity seem to falter . For the truthfulness of confession is complicated not only by the power ...
... notion of " gender trouble . " Butler argues against reifying the binary opposition of man / woman as she repeatedly ... notions of femininity seem to falter . For the truthfulness of confession is complicated not only by the power ...
Strana 6
... notions of social order . In three of the four novels I explore , female characters confess to male characters who hold a familial relationship , typically the most viable candidate for patriarch . These confessions of violence — from ...
... notions of social order . In three of the four novels I explore , female characters confess to male characters who hold a familial relationship , typically the most viable candidate for patriarch . These confessions of violence — from ...
Strana 11
... notions of degenerate femininity . This sensation novel's spectacular confession of Lady Audley's overt criminality offers a dramatic ... notion of a national A PROCESS OF POWER inheritance encoded in the scenes of Jewish confession of faith.
... notions of degenerate femininity . This sensation novel's spectacular confession of Lady Audley's overt criminality offers a dramatic ... notion of a national A PROCESS OF POWER inheritance encoded in the scenes of Jewish confession of faith.
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