| Rewriting the Victorians: Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender Contributor(s): Shires, Linda M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 041575237X ISBN-13: 9780415752374 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $56.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Feminist - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Literary Criticism | Reference |
| Dewey: 820.900 |
| Series: Rle: Women, Feminism and Literature |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyzes power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This volume is the first to reshape Victorian studies from the perspective of the postmodern return to history, and is variously influenced by Marxism, sociology, anthropology, and post-structuralist theories of language and subjectivity. It analyzes the struggle for legitimacy and recognition in Victorian institutions and the struggle over meanings in ideological representation of the gendered subject in texts. Contributors cover diverse topics, including Victorian ideologies of motherhood, the male gaze, the cult of the male child genius in narrative painting, the press, and Victorian women and the French Revolution, discussing both well-known and less familiar Victorian texts. |