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Woman rules within : domestic space and genre in Qing vernacular literature / Jessica Dvorak Moyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moyer, Jessica Dvorak, author.
- Series:
- Women and gender in China studies ; Volume 11.
- Women and Gender in China Studies ; Volume 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in literature.
- Chinese literature--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature.
- Domestic relations in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
- Summary:
- In Woman Rules Within: Domestic Space and Genre in Qing Vernacular Literature , Jessica Dvorak Moyer compares depictions of household space and women’s networks in texts across a range of genres from about 1600 to 1800 C.E. Analyzing vernacular transformations of classical source texts as well as vernacular stories and novels, Moyer shows that vernacular genres use expansive detail about architectural space and the everyday domestic world to navigate a variety of ideological tensions, particularly that between qing (emotion) and li (ritual propriety), and to flesh out characters whose actions challenge the norms of gendered spatial practice even as they ultimately uphold the gender order. Woman Rules Within contributes a new understanding of the role of colloquial language in late imperial literature.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-43792-4
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004437920 DOI
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