Repression in Victorian Fiction
Author | : John Kucich |
Publisher | : Olympic Marketing Corporation |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1987-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780520059801 |
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Author | : John Kucich |
Publisher | : Olympic Marketing Corporation |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1987-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780520059801 |
Author | : John Kucich |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801480898 |
Trollope and the antibourgeois elite -- Competitive elites in Wilkie Collins : cultural intellectuals and their professional others -- Lying and impulsiveness in Elizabeth Gaskell -- The professional and the mother : moral disempowerment in East Lynne -- Moral authority in Hardy's late novels : the gendering of art -- Feminism's ethical contradictions : Sarah Grand and New Woman writing.
Author | : Ronald R. Thomas |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780801496943 |
Author | : Anna Krugovoy Silver |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2002-08-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139434802 |
Anna Krugovoy Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body - hunger, appetite, fat and slenderness - in the creation of female characters. Silver argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal of middle-class womanhood in Victorian Britain. In addition, Silver relates these literary expressions to the representation of women's bodies in the conduct books, beauty manuals and other non-fiction prose of the period, contending that women 'performed' their gender and class alliances through the slender body. Silver discusses a wide range of writers including Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Bram Stoker and Lewis Carroll to show that mainstream models of middle-class Victorian womanhood share important qualities with the beliefs or behaviours of the anorexic girl or woman.
Author | : Mary Jean Corbett |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0801459664 |
In nineteenth-century England, marriage between first cousins was both legally permitted and perfectly acceptable. After mid-century, laws did not explicitly penalize sexual relationships between parents and children, between siblings, or between grandparents and grandchildren. But for a widower to marry his deceased wife's sister was illegal on the grounds that it constituted incest. That these laws and the mores they reflect strike us today as wrongheaded indicates how much ideas about kinship, marriage, and incest have changed. In Family Likeness, Mary Jean Corbett shows how the domestic fiction of novelists including Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Virginia Woolf reflected the shifting boundaries of "family" and even helped refine those borders. Corbett takes up historically contingent and culturally variable notions of who is and is not a relative and whom one can and cannot marry. Her argument is informed by legal and political debates; texts in sociology and anthropology; and discussions on the biology of heredity, breeding, and eugenics. In Corbett's view, marriage within families—between cousins, in-laws, or adoptees—offered Victorian women, both real and fictional, an attractive alternative to romance with a stranger, not least because it allowed them to maintain and strengthen relations with other women within the family.
Author | : John Kucich |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501724525 |
Although moral earnestness has long been considered characteristic of the Victorians, Kucich maintains that English fiction in the nineteenth century was as interested in lies as in honesty. In this important book, Kucich explores the fascination with lying in novels by Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ellen Wood, Thomas Hardy, and Sarah Grand.
Author | : John Kucich |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 9781452904269 |
Author | : Russell M. Goldfarb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Studies sexual expression in literature of high quality. Analyzes more than a dozen novels and poems that, in a variety of ways, treat topics such as intercourse, voyeurism, frigidity, masturbation, homosexuality, and incest.
Author | : Andrew Dowling |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351920146 |
The purpose of this book is to address two principal questions: 'Was the concept of masculinity a topic of debate for the Victorians?' and 'Why is Victorian literature full of images of male deviance when Victorian masculinity is defined by discipline?' In his introduction, Dowling defines Victorian masculinity in terms of discipline. He then addresses the central question of why an official ideal of manly discipline in the nineteenth century co-existed with a literature that is full of images of male deviance. In answering this question, he develops a notion of 'hegemonic deviance', whereby a dominant ideal of masculinity defines itself by what it is not. Dowling goes on to examine the fear of effeminacy facing Victorian literary men and the strategies used to combat these fears by the nineteenth-century male novelist. In later chapters, concentrating on Dickens and Thackeray, he examines how the male novelist is defined against multiple images of unmanliness. These chapters illustrate the investment made by men in constructing male 'others', those sources of difference that are constantly produced and then crushed from within gender divide. By analysing how Victorian literary texts both reveal and reconcile historical anxieties about the meaning of manliness, Dowling argues that masculinity is a complex construction rather than a natural given.
Author | : Russell M. Goldfarb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Studies sexual expression in literature of high quality. Analyzes more than a dozen novels and poems that, in a variety of ways, treat topics such as intercourse, voyeurism, frigidity, masturbation, homosexuality, and incest.