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
... seems a space to gather and place the various filaments that texture an intellectual project . Such an under- taking is necessarily untenable because of the complicated life — and the lives that are also part of this fabric — that any ...
... seems a space to gather and place the various filaments that texture an intellectual project . Such an under- taking is necessarily untenable because of the complicated life — and the lives that are also part of this fabric — that any ...
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... seems ironic at best . Accordingly , I find confessional modes in general , as well as the specific Victorian scenes of confession I pursue in the following chapters , to be ambig- uous with respect to a coherent political stance . By ...
... seems ironic at best . Accordingly , I find confessional modes in general , as well as the specific Victorian scenes of confession I pursue in the following chapters , to be ambig- uous with respect to a coherent political stance . By ...
Strana 3
... " confession " implies — into discourse . Perhaps it seems an anachro- nism to invoke the late - twentieth - century controversy surrounding recov- A PROCESS OF POWER ered - memory therapies of sexual abuse to introduce a -3-
... " confession " implies — into discourse . Perhaps it seems an anachro- nism to invoke the late - twentieth - century controversy surrounding recov- A PROCESS OF POWER ered - memory therapies of sexual abuse to introduce a -3-
Strana 4
... seems more latitude for questioning " truth " and its construction : the truth of the therapist's practice , the truth of the client's memories , the truth of the imputed assailant's denial . As Leigh Gilmore usefully observes ...
... seems more latitude for questioning " truth " and its construction : the truth of the therapist's practice , the truth of the client's memories , the truth of the imputed assailant's denial . As Leigh Gilmore usefully observes ...
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... seem to falter . For the truthfulness of confession is complicated not only by the power relations that frame its production , but also by its representation of a trans- gression , one that implicitly or explicitly associates sexuality ...
... seem to falter . For the truthfulness of confession is complicated not only by the power relations that frame its production , but also by its representation of a trans- gression , one that implicitly or explicitly associates sexuality ...
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 |
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