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Spectacles of realism : body, gender, genre / Margaret Cohen and Christopher Prendergast, editors (for the Social Text Collective).
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cultural politics (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 10.
- Cultural politics ; v. 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminist theory.
- Realism.
- Feminism and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (378 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Despite rumors of its demise in literary theory and practice, realism persists. Why this is, and how realism is relevant to current interdisciplinary debates in gender studies and cultural studies, are the questions underlying Spectacles of Realism. With particular reference to nineteenth-century French culture, the contributors explore the role realism has played in the social construction of gender and sexuality.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface: Reconfiguring Realism; Introduction: Realism, God's Secret, and the Body; Female Sexuality and the Referent of Enlightenment Realisms; Censoring the Realist Gaze; Realism without a Human Face; In Lieu of a Chapter on Some French Women Realist Novelists; S/Z, Realism, and Compulsory Heterosexuality; Real Fashion: Clothes Unmake the Working Woman; Figura Serpentinata: Visual Seduction and the Colonial Gaze; Flaubert and Realism: Paternity, Authority, and Sexual Difference; The Adulteress's Child; The Body and the Body Politic in the Novels of the Goncourts
- Experimenting on Women: Zola's Theory and Practice of the Experimental NovelTemples of Delight: Consuming Consumption in Emile Zola's Au Bonheur des dames; The Morgue and the Musée Grévin: Understanding the Public Taste for Reality in Fin-de Siècle Paris; Bayadères, Stéréorama, and Vahat-Loukoum: Technological Realism in the Age of Empire; A Question of Reference: Male Sexuality in Phallic Theory; Courbet's L'Origine du monde: The Origin without an Original; Select Critical Bibliography; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-352) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8615-7
- OCLC:
- 476093873
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