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 xii
... suggest that the ambiguities of power surrounding acts of self - revelation in Victorian narratives have not been re- solved by any means , even if the terms and degrees of the representations of transgressive women have shifted ...
... suggest that the ambiguities of power surrounding acts of self - revelation in Victorian narratives have not been re- solved by any means , even if the terms and degrees of the representations of transgressive women have shifted ...
Strana 1
... suggests that power , as a mode of action , can also mean an opening up of possibilities . Throughout Confessional Subjects : Revelations of Gender and Power in Vic- torian Literature and Culture , I take the position that confession is ...
... suggests that power , as a mode of action , can also mean an opening up of possibilities . Throughout Confessional Subjects : Revelations of Gender and Power in Vic- torian Literature and Culture , I take the position that confession is ...
Strana 6
... suggests that confession is a rather un - Victorian ac- tivity . This repudiation also reveals a general cultural discomfort with overt self - expression and public display ; such disavowal of the revelatory clarifies why confession ...
... suggests that confession is a rather un - Victorian ac- tivity . This repudiation also reveals a general cultural discomfort with overt self - expression and public display ; such disavowal of the revelatory clarifies why confession ...
Strana 7
... suggests the gendered pa- rameters of home rule . The succeeding chapters show how these contradictions frame women and sexual violence precisely as " confessional subjects . " My readings attend to the social , psychological , and ...
... suggests the gendered pa- rameters of home rule . The succeeding chapters show how these contradictions frame women and sexual violence precisely as " confessional subjects . " My readings attend to the social , psychological , and ...
Strana 13
... suggests : the gendered subjects of women confessing and the substantive subject of confessing violations . It is ... suggest that stories of transgression can impart a recondite testimony . On the other , these stories make manifest ...
... suggests : the gendered subjects of women confessing and the substantive subject of confessing violations . It is ... suggest that stories of transgression can impart a recondite testimony . On the other , these stories make manifest ...
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