New feminist discourses : critical essays on theories and texts / edited by Isobel Armstrong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Armstrong, Isobel.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature.

Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Feminism and literature--Great Britain.

Feminism and literature.

Women and literature--Great Britain.

Women and literature.

Feminist criticism--Great Britain.

Feminist criticism.

Sex role in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of new feminist essays represents the work of young critics researching and teaching in British Universities. Aiming to set the agenda for feminist criticism in the nineties, the essays debate themes crucial to the development of feminist thought: among them, the problems of gendered knowledge and the implications of accounts of gendered language, cultural restraints on the representation of sexuality, women's agency, cultural and political change, a feminist aesthetics and new readings of race and class. This variety is given coherence by a unity of aim - to forge new femin

Contents:

NEW FEMINIST DISCOURSES Critical Essays on Theories and Texts; Copyright; NEW FEMINIST DISCOURSES Critical Essays on Theories and Texts; Copyright; Contents; List of plates; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I Knowledges; Chapter 2 Feminist aesthetics and the new realism; Chapter 3 Walking, women and writing: Virginia Woolf as flâneuse; Chapter 4 Happy families? Feminist reproduction and matrilineal thought; Chapter 5 An other space: a future for feminism?; Part II Subjectivities; Chapter 6 Releasing possibility into form: cultural choice and the woman writer

Chapter 7 Fakes and femininity: Vita Sackville-West and her motherChapter 8 The dangers of Angela Carter; Part III Languages; Chapter 9 Love, mourning and metaphor: terms of identity; Chapter 10 Why the Lady's eyes are nothing like the sun; Chapter 11 Unsilent instruments and the devil's cushions: authority in seventeenth-century women's prophetic discourse; Part IV Representations; Chapter 12 Getting down to basics: art, obscenity and the female nude; Chapter 13 Do or die: problems of agency and gender in the aesthetics of murder

Chapter 14 The politics of focus: feminism and photography theoryChapter 15 The hand of the huntress: repetition and Malory's Morte Darthur; Part V Others; Chapter 16 New hystericism: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: the body, the text and the feminist critic; Chapter 17 The great distinction: figures of the exotic in the work of William Hodges; Chapter 18 'Because men made the laws': the fallen woman and the woman poet; Index

Notes:

First published in 1992 by Routledge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-32201-9

1-283-60524-4

9786613917690

1-136-32202-7

0-203-12056-6

9780203120569

OCLC:

811506145