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Women and Romance : The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel / Laurie Langbauer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Langbauer, Laurie, author.
- en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.
- Series:
- Reading women writing.
- Reading Women Writing
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Characters--Women.
- Dickens, Charles.
- English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History.
- Women and literature.
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Romanticism.
- Sex role in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Laurie Langbauer is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Novels of Everyday Life: The Series in English Fiction, 1850-1930, also published by Cornell University Press.
- Summary:
- According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues in feminist debate, in particular the relations of feminist to the poststructuralist theories of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault. In highlighting questions of gender in this way, Women and Romance contributes to a major debate between skeptical and materialist points of view among poststructuralist critics.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The Romance of History, or Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny, Sometimes
- 2. Diverting Romance : Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote
- 3. An Early Romance: The Ideology of the Body in Mary Wollstonecraft's Writing
- 4. Streetwalkers and Homebodies: Dickens's Romantic Women
- 5. Recycling Patriarchy's Garbage: George Eliot's Pessimism and the Problem of a Site for Feminism
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Sep 2018)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5017-2800-8
- 1-5017-2306-5
- OCLC:
- 1028953696
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