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Author: Marisa Palacios Knox Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108496164 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 255
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Explains how Victorian women readers strategically identified with literature to defy stereotypes and inspire their action and creativity.
Author: Marisa Palacios Knox Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108496164 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 255
Book Description
Explains how Victorian women readers strategically identified with literature to defy stereotypes and inspire their action and creativity.
Author: Marisa Palacios Knox Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108853471 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 255
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In the nineteenth century, no assumption about female reading generated more ambivalence than the supposedly feminine facility for identifying with fictional characters. The belief that women were more impressionable than men inspired a continuous stream of anxious rhetoric about “female quixotes”: women who would imitate inappropriate characters or apply incongruous frames of reference from literature to their own lives. While the overt cultural discourse portrayed female literary identification as passive and delusional, Palacios Knox reveals increasing accounts of Victorian women wielding literary identification as a deliberate strategy. Wayward women readers challenged dominant assumptions about “feminine reading” and, by extension, femininity itself. Victorian Women and Wayward Reading contextualizes crises about female identification as reactions to decisive changes in the legal, political, educational, and professional status of women over the course of the nineteenth century: changes that wayward reading helped women first to imagine and then to enact.
Author: Dana Spiotta Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 059331249X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 337
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “furious and addictive new novel” (The New York Times) about mothers and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning as she flees her suburban life. “Exhilarating ... reads like a burning fever dream. A virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad.” —The New York Times Book Review Samantha Raymond's life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at fifty-two she finds herself staring into "the Mids"—that hour of supreme wakefulness between three and four in the morning in which women of a certain age suddenly find themselves contemplating motherhood, mortality, and, in this case, the state of our unraveling nation. When she falls in love with a beautiful, decrepit house in a hardscrabble neighborhood in Syracuse, she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life—and her family—as she grapples with how to be a wife, a mother, and a daughter, in a country that is coming apart at the seams. Dana Spiotta's Wayward is a stunning novel about aging, about the female body, and about female complexity in contemporary America. Probing and provocative, brainy and sensual, it is a testament to our weird times, to reforms and resistance and utopian wishes, and to the beauty of ruins.
Author: Adriana Craciun Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139436333 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 350
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Incarnations of fatal women, or femmes fatales, recur throughout the works of women writers in the Romantic period. Adriana Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of femmes fatales or fatal women played an important role in the development of Romantic women's poetic identities and informed their exploration of issues surrounding the body, sexuality and politics. Craciun covers a wide range of writers and genres from the 1790s through the 1830s. She discusses the work of well-known figures including Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as lesser-known writers like Anne Bannerman. By examining women writers' fatal women in historical, political and medical contexts, Craciun uncovers a far-ranging debate on sexual difference. She also engages with current research on the history of the body and sexuality, providing an important historical precedent for modern feminist theory's ongoing dilemma regarding the status of 'woman' as a sex.
Author: Linda H. Peterson Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107064848 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 323
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Innovative and comprehensive coverage of women writers' careers and literary achievements spanning many literary genres during the Victorian period.
Author: Linda Hughes Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316512843 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 305
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A vivid account of the alternative, emancipatory Germany that progressive British women writers discovered and wrote about, 1833-1910.
Author: Florian Klaeger Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110756536 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 263
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Special Focus: Law and Literature This special focus issue of Symbolism takes a look at the theoretical equation of law and literature and its inherent symbolic dimension. The authors all approach the subject from the perspective of literary and book studies, foregrounding literature’s potential to act as supplementary to a very wide variety of laws spread over historical, geographical, cultural and spatial grounds. The theoretical ground laid here thus posits both literature and law in the narrow sense. The articles gathered in this special issue analyse Anglophone literatures from the Renaissance to the present day and cover the three major genres, narrative, drama and poetry. The contributions address questions of the law’s psychoanalytic subconscious, copyright and censorship, literary negotiations of colonial and post-colonial territorial laws, the European ‘refugee debate’ and migration narratives, fictional debates on climate change, contemporary feminist drama and classic 19th-century legal narratives. This volume includes two insightful analyses of poetic texts with a special focus on the fact that poetry has often been neglected within the field of law and literature research. Special Focus editor: Franziska Quabeck, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.
Author: Marisa Palacios Knox
Author: Marisa Palacios Knox
Author: Marisa Palacios Knox
Author: Deirdre David
Author: Emilie Autumn
Author: Dana Spiotta
Author: Gail Marshall
Author: Adriana Craciun
Author: Linda H. Peterson
Author: Linda Hughes
Author: Florian Klaeger