The woman question in nineteenth-century English, German and Russian literature : (en)gendering barriers / by Kathryn Ambrose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ambrose, Kathryn, author.

Series:

Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 80.

Textxet: studies in comparative literature ; Volume 80

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism in literature.

Women in literature.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

237 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2016]

Summary:

Kathryn Ambrose offers a new approach to the Woman Question in mid-to late-nineteenth-century English, German and Russian literature. Using a methodological framework based on feminist theory and post-structuralism, she provides a re-vision of canonical texts (such as Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, Effi Briest, Fathers and Children and Anna Karenina) alongside lesser-known works by Emily and Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Ivan Turgenev and Leo Tolstoy Her exploration of the semiotics of barriers - as opposed to the established approach of the semiotics of space - makes for a rewarding reading of this period of literature and establishes new cross-cultural and literary connections between the three countries. Book jacket.

Contents:

Bronte or bell? Identity as barrier in the works of Charlotte and Emily Bronte

George Eliot and the "superfluous woman"': a subtle means of protest?

Women in Theodor Storm: the opposition of conformity and otherness

From Sleeping Beauty to career woman: the development of women's roles in Theodor Fontane

Turgenev and the "woman question": layering barriers

Tolstoy, women and barriers: inflexible closedness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789004304833

9004304835

OCLC:

933265155