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Confessional subjects : revelations of gender and power in Victorian literature and culture / Susan David Bernstein.
Van Pelt Library PR788.C56 B47 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernstein, Susan David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English prose literature.
- Confession in literature.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Anti-Catholicism.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Women authors.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Anti-Catholicism--England--History--19th century.
- Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.
- Civilization.
- Power (Social sciences) in literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- Susan Bernstein examines the gendered power relationships embedded in confessional literature of the Victorian period. Exploring this dynamic in Charlotte Bronte's Villete, Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and Thomas hardy's Tess of the d'Urbevilles, she argues that although women's disclosures to male confessors repeatedly depict wrongdoing committed against them, they themselves are viewed as the transgressors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-197) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807823139
- 0807846244
- OCLC:
- 34912653
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