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An Ethic of Innocence: Pragmatism, Modernity, and Women's Choice Not to Know

By Kristen L. Renzi

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2019
ISBN
1438475977, 9781438475974
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1617618 bytes)
Series
SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Pages
296\298
Library
Memory of the World Library
Time added
2022-02-19 21:28:59

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Offers a feminist theory of ignorance that sheds light on the misunderstood or overlooked epistemic practices of women in literature. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Problem of Modern Female Innocence Not-Knowing as Trope-cum-Trap Epistemologies of Not-knowing, Ethics of Innocence Glossing Not-Knowing Not-Knowing as Fin-de-Siècle Story, Gendered Story Not-knowing: Feminist Irritant or Surprising Salve? An Ethic of Innocence Part One: Negotiated Living Chapter One: A Pragmatist’s Dilemma: The Collusion between Myth and Reality in the Tale of the Hull House Devil Baby Progressive Blinders and Settlement Tensions Pragmatist Principles and the Genres of Jane Addams The Devil Baby Tale: Old Magic Meets New Protest Inspired by the Devil Baby: Generic and Affective Gaps Reading like Addams: Pragmatism, Knowledge, and the Turn-of-the-Century Woman Chapter Two: Coming of Age via Critical Complaint: Reading Women’s Choices Not to Know in Realist Bildungsroman Critical Complaints: Loving, Choosing, and Living Wrongly Pessimistic Optimism: Charity’s Choice of Agency over Affect Veiled Sass: Maud Martha’s Covert Protests Recasting Trauma: Arvay’s Mental and Bodily Manipulation Suspect Optimism, Grievable Lives Chapter Three: A Failure of Sympathy or of Narrative? Naturalism’s Jaded Women and the Narrative Cycle of Domestic Violence Why Does She Stay? / Why Doesn’t She Leave? Agents and Victims within the Cyclical Tale Nineteenth-Century Activism Meets McTeague’s Battered Women Jaded Power, Unsympathetic Agency Female Masochism and Naturalism’s Everyday Romance Miserable yet Miserly Womanly Love Chapter Four: The Legacy of Naturalism, a Cycle of Leaving: Reading Agency in the Passive, Empty Woman Naturalism’s Modern Legacy and the Passive Woman Alternative Challenging the Narrative of Success: A Passive Agency? Min’s Cycle of Leaving Narrativizing the Cycle, Changing the Question Part Two: Pragmatic Fantasies Chapter Five: Are Women People? Discourses of (Non)Personhood in Suffrage Poetry and Protest Are Women People? Alice Duer Miller’s Dual Question Pragmatism’s Process: Creating, Not Recognizing, Personhood Thinking with the Pragmatists: Aesthetic and Political Value in Mary Richardson’s Avant-Garde Protest Creating the Female Person: Where a Pragmatist Might Go from Here Chapter Six: Making Women, Making Humans: Fantasies and Melancholic Mourning in Modern Sex Changes and Sex Losses Unbound Sex, Transformed Society: Grieving Communities: Sex Losses within Sex Changes Sex Difficulties: Male Modernity’s Resistance to Loss, Reluctance to Mourn Uncomfortable Gender, Disallowed Sex: “The Man Who Became a Woman” Toward a Melancholic Mourning, or a Mournful Melancholia An Image, a Path, and an Opening: Proud Man Toward a Human Woman Chapter Seven: Allowing Innocence? Belief, Knowledge, and the Modern Community Allowing “Innocence”: The Dreamer and the Community To Be or Not to Be Human: A Pragmatist’s Dilemma The Romance of Community: Can It Be Real[ized]? Ambiguous Innocence: Its Warning, Its Hope, Its Charge Notes Works Cited Index

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