Rewriting the Victorians : theory, history, and the politics of gender / edited by Linda M. Shires.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shires, Linda M., 1950-

Series:

Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature.

Routledge library editions. Women, feminism and literature ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English literature.

Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Feminism and literature.

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Politics and literature.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

Social problems in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyzes power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This volume is the first to reshape Victorian studies from the perspective of the postmodern return to history, and is variously influenced by Marxism, sociology, anthropology, and post-structuralist theories of language and subjectivity. It analyzes the struggle for legitimacy and recognition in Victorian institutions and the struggle over meanings in ideological representation of the gendered subject in texts.Contributors cover diverse topics, including V

Contents:

Front Cover; New: Rewriting the Victorians; New: Copyright Page; Old: Rewriting the Victorians; Old: Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Engendering history for the middle class: sex and political economy in the Edinburgh Review: Judith Newton; 2. From trope to code: the novel and the rhetoric of gender in nineteenth-century critical discourse: Ina Ferris; 3. Demonic mothers: ideologies of bourgeois motherhood in the mid-Victorian era: Sally Shuttleworth; 4. Water rights and the ""crossing o' breeds"": chiastic exchange in The Mill on the Floss: Jules Law

5. Tess, tourism, and the spectacle of the woman: Jeff Nunokawa6. ""To tell the truth of sex"": confession and abjection in late Victorian writing: Marion Shaw; 7. Reading the Gothic revival: ""History"" and Hints on Household Tasre: Christina Crosby; 8. Excluding women: the cult of the male genius in Victorian painting: Susan P. Casteras; 9. Of maenads, mothers, and feminized males: Victorian readings of the French Revolution: Linda M. Shires; 10. The ""female paternalist"" as historian: Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow: Christine L. Krueger

Afterword: ideology and the subject as agent: Linda M. ShiresIndex

Notes:

First published in 1992 by Routledge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

ISBN:

1-136-32131-4

1-283-58639-8

9786613898845

0-203-12044-2

1-136-32132-2

9780203120446

OCLC:

810191527