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 xi
... story all three must enact to persuade the celebrity panel to vote for them . I mention this program because in all of the representations of confession my book surveys and analyzes , the probity value is less important , less ...
... story all three must enact to persuade the celebrity panel to vote for them . I mention this program because in all of the representations of confession my book surveys and analyzes , the probity value is less important , less ...
Strana xii
... stories of Victorian heroines who execute or fantasize about committing violent acts of retaliation against men who have abused their power over them . All of these examples call into question cherished notions about motherhood , about ...
... stories of Victorian heroines who execute or fantasize about committing violent acts of retaliation against men who have abused their power over them . All of these examples call into question cherished notions about motherhood , about ...
Strana 2
... stories . Beyond Foucault , I ask how cultural constructions of gender , that is , the equation of domination with masculinity and submission with femininity , are embedded in the rhetorical folds of confession . For in Hardy's novel ...
... stories . Beyond Foucault , I ask how cultural constructions of gender , that is , the equation of domination with masculinity and submission with femininity , are embedded in the rhetorical folds of confession . For in Hardy's novel ...
Strana 3
... story of transgression and the authorized audience of this tale who determines its meaning and the speaker's absolution , treatment , or punishment . In therapeutic accounts of sexual violation a century ago — narratives that formed the ...
... story of transgression and the authorized audience of this tale who determines its meaning and the speaker's absolution , treatment , or punishment . In therapeutic accounts of sexual violation a century ago — narratives that formed the ...
Strana 4
... stories of the empowered over the disempowered , or , for example , the privileging of men's words over women's . While there was considerable opposition to this perspective , Anita Hill's testimony in the U.S. Senate in the fall of ...
... stories of the empowered over the disempowered , or , for example , the privileging of men's words over women's . While there was considerable opposition to this perspective , Anita Hill's testimony in the U.S. Senate in the fall of ...
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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