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 vii
... Confession in Daniel Deronda 105 CHAPTER 5 The Un - Intact State : Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Confessions of Sexual and Textual Violence 143 Notes 165 Bibliography 191 Index 199 1 PREFACE The genesis of this project unfolded nearly ten.
... Confession in Daniel Deronda 105 CHAPTER 5 The Un - Intact State : Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Confessions of Sexual and Textual Violence 143 Notes 165 Bibliography 191 Index 199 1 PREFACE The genesis of this project unfolded nearly ten.
Strana xii
... 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 marriage and the unstinting sexual and emotional availability of the ...
... 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 marriage and the unstinting sexual and emotional availability of the ...
Strana 2
... violence — is incomplete and fragmentary , an activity revealing the contrariness of power . Throughout this book I refrain from reading resistance per se in acts of women confessing , although I do recognize within these confessions ...
... violence — is incomplete and fragmentary , an activity revealing the contrariness of power . Throughout this book I refrain from reading resistance per se in acts of women confessing , although I do recognize within these confessions ...
Strana 5
... violence in women's narratives . In Foucault's argument , sex furnishes " the theoretical underside of confession ... violence . Let me elaborate on this focus on violence and on the domestic in scenes of confession . By " violence " I ...
... violence in women's narratives . In Foucault's argument , sex furnishes " the theoretical underside of confession ... violence . Let me elaborate on this focus on violence and on the domestic in scenes of confession . By " violence " I ...
Strana 6
... violence , like the confession scenes themselves , are inevitably tethered to the so - called private spheres of home and family , domestic spaces that reproduce cultural notions of social order . In three of the four novels I explore ...
... violence , like the confession scenes themselves , are inevitably tethered to the so - called private spheres of home and family , domestic spaces that reproduce cultural notions of social order . In three of the four novels I explore ...
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