Patriarchal Desire and Victorian Discourse : A Lacanian Reading of Anthony Trollope's Palliser Novel / Priscilla Walton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walton, Priscilla, Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882--Characters--Women.

Trollope, Anthony.

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. Palliser novels.

Palliser novels (Trollope, Anthony).

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

While there have been studies examining Trollope from a feminist perspective, very little work has taken into consideration the questions raised by contemporary critical theory. Patriarchal Desire and Victorian Discourse is unique in that it links feminist analysis with psychoanalytic theory, and brings both to bear on an examination of Trollope's writings. The feminist Lacanian analysis employed by Priscilla L. Walton offers a new perspective on the dominant Victorian cultural dynamic. She explains how the works serve as complex and ultimately double-edged exemplars of patriarchal desire and masculinist discourse.

Contents:

1. The Politics of Desire in An Autobiography

2. Subject(ed) Desire in Can You Forgive Her?

3. Desire, Control, and Suppression in Phineas Finn

4. Desire and Displacement in The Eustace Diamonds

5. Subjectivity and Masquerade in Phineas Redux

6. Ego Drives and Difference in The Prime Minister

7. Desire and Disenfranchisement in The Duke's Children

Conclusion: Discourse and Desire.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-7448-7

OCLC:

1099534103