| Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists 1996 Edition Contributor(s): Hall, D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333655788 ISBN-13: 9780333655788 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 823.809 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.64 lbs) 236 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists explores representations of monstrous women in mid-Victorian literature, tracing anxious male responses to the feminist movement of the era. It argues that Victorian patriarchy was a fluid theory and set of practices through which Victorian men attempted unsuccessfully to fix gender definitions and their own positions of power. In Victorian novels written by men, the thorough instability of contemporary conceptions of both masculinity and femininity is revealed, as an entire society struggled with new forms of self-awareness and new threats to traditional social structures and systems of belief. |