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Romantic imprisonment : women and other glorified outcasts / Nina Auerbach.
LIBRA PR830.W6 A93 1986
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LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PR830.W6 A93 1985
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Auerbach, Nina, 1943-2017.
- Series:
- Gender and culture
- Gender and culture.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in literature.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English fiction--Women authors.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 1985, c1986.
- Summary:
- Also includes information on acting and theatricality, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, George Gordon Byron cannibalism and vampirism, Lewis Carroll, children and childhood, Charles Dickens, eroticism and sexuality, fallen women, fathers and fatherhood, female tradition, feminist criticism, Freud, Freudianism and Freudian criticism, Gothicism, Henry Irving, Henry James, love, lovers and romantic heroes, marriage and epithalamium, Charles Maturin, monsters and monstrosity, motherhood and anti motherhood, mythology of culture, the novel, Ann Radcliffe, romanticism and the romantic consciousness, William Shakespeare, Alfred Tennyson, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth, etc.
- Contents:
- 1. Jane Austen: Jane Austen and romantic imprisonment
- Jane Austen's dangerous charm: feeling as one ought about Fanny Price
- O brave new world: Evolution and revolution in Persuasion
- 2. Men's women: Incarnations of the orphan
- Women on women's destiny: maturity as penance
- Robert Browning's last word
- Dickens and Dombey: a daughter after all
- Alice and Wonderland: a curious child
- Falling Alice, fallen women, and Victorian dream children
- 3. Female traditions: Artists and mothers: a false alliance
- Dorothy L. Sayers and the Amazons
- Charlotte Brontë: the two countries
- "This changeful life": Emily Brontë's anti-romance
- The power of hunger: demonism and Maggie Tulliver
- 4. Women acting: Secret performances: George Eliot and the art of acting
- Ellen Terry's Victorian marriage.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-309) and index.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0231060041
- OCLC:
- 12052216
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