The trauma of gender : a feminist theory of the English novel / Helene Moglen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moglen, Helene, 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Feminism and literature.

English fiction--Male authors--History and criticism.

Feminist fiction, English--History and criticism.

Feminist fiction, English.

Sex role in literature.

Sex in literature.

Gender identity in literature.

Feminist literary criticism.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Helene Moglen offers a revisionary feminist argument about the origins, cultural function, and formal structure of the English novel. While most critics and historians have associated the novel's emergence and development with the burgeoning of capitalism and the rise of the middle classes, Moglen contends that the novel princi- pally came into being in order to manage the social and psychological strains of the modern sex-gender system.

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Gender Politics of Narrative Modes; 1. Daniel Defoe and the Gendered Subject of Individualism; 2. Clarissa and the Pornographic Imagination; 3. (W)holes and Noses: The Indeterminacies of Tristram Shandy; 4. Horace Walpole and the Nightmare of History; Conclusion: The Relation of Fiction and Theory; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index.

ISBN:

0-520-92583-1

1-59734-964-X

OCLC:

475927145