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Rewriting the Victorians : Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender

By Linda M. Shires

Book information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Year
2012
ISBN
9781136321320, 9780415521734
LCC
PR468.F46 T4
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
8 MB (7904641 bytes)
Series
Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature Ser.
Pages
210\0
Time added
2023-08-03 09:26:51
English literature -- 19th century -- History andetc. ; Feminism and literature -- Great Britain --

Description

This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyzes power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This volume is the first to reshape Victorian studies from the perspective of the postmodern return to history, and is variously influenced by Marxism, sociology, anthropology, and post-structuralist theories of language and subjectivity. It analyzes the struggle for legitimacy and recognition in Victorian institutions and the struggle over meanings in ideological representation of the gendered subject in texts. Contributors cover diverse topics, including Victorian ideologies of motherhood, the male gaze, the cult of the male child genius in narrative painting, the press, and Victorian women and the French Revolution, discussing both well-known and less familiar Victorian texts.

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