God Between Their Lips : Desire Between Women in Irigaray, Brontë, and Eliot / Kathryn Bond Stockton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stockton, Kathryn Bond, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855--Characters.

Brontë, Charlotte.

Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Characters.

Eliot, George.

Irigaray, Luce.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book explores desire between women as a form of "spiritual materialism" in writings by Luce Irigaray, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot. To begin with the study's underlying paradox, "spiritual materialism": the author wishes to understand why the act of grasping materialities—a sob in the body or the body itself—has so often required a spiritual discourse; why materialism, as a way of naming matter-on-its-own-terms, and material relations that still lie submerged, hidden from view, evoke the shadowy forms we call "spiritual."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Abbreviations

Prelude

Introduction

Part I

1. Bodies and God: Post-structuralist Feminists Return to the Fold of Spiritual Materialism

2. Divine Loss: Irigaray's Erotics of a Feminine Fracture

3. Lacking/Labor: "Labour Is Ever an Imprisoned God"

Interlude

Part II

4. Recollecting Charlotte Bronte

5. Working for God Autoerotically: Approaching the Bridegroom Without A(r)rival in Bronte's Villette

6. Recognizing George Eliot

7. At Home with Desire: The Domestication of St. Theresa in Eliot's Middlemarch

Postlude

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

0-8047-8815-4