Subject to Change : Reading Feminist Writing / Nancy K. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Nancy K., author.

Series:

Gender and Culture

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1988]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Explores gender and culture through the filter of feminist writing over the past several centuries.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Writing Feminist Criticism

I. Reading Women's Writing

1. Emphasis Added: Plots and Plausibilities in Women's Fiction

2. Writing Fictions: Women's Autobiography in France

II. The Subjects of Feminist Criticism

3. The Text's Heroine: A Feminist Critic and Her Fictions

4. Arachnologies: The Woman, the Text, and the Critic

5. Changing the Subject: Authorship, Writing, and the Reader

III. Feminist Signatures: Coming to Writing in France, 1747-1910

6. The Knot, the Letter, and the Book: Graffigny's Peruvian Letters

7. Performances of the Gaze: Stael's Corinne, or Italy

8. Writing from the Pavilion: George Sand and the Novel of Female Pastoral

9. Woman of Letters: The Return to Writing in Colette's The Vagabond

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89152-0

OCLC:

1100433564