Feminine subjects in masculine fiction Modernity, will and desire, 1870-1910 /
Between 1870 and 1910 male authors were actively engaged with imagining new possibilities for women, at the same time as the central female figure continued to function as a troubling and unreachable object of aesthetic desire. This book examines these inscrutable female characters who were the grou...
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Language: | English |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137341044 |
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Between 1870 and 1910 male authors were actively engaged with imagining new possibilities for women, at the same time as the central female figure continued to function as a troubling and unreachable object of aesthetic desire. This book examines these inscrutable female characters who were the ground on which fiction reinvented itself as Art. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230355187, 2013. |
Carrier Form: | 232 p. : 6 b&w, ill. |
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9780230355187 9781137341044 1137341041 |
CLC: | I561.064 |
Contents: | 1. Introduction 2. Wilkie Collins and Narrative Containment 3. Anthony Trollope: Gender, Law and the Psychological 4. Density, Will and Desire: Henry James, Aesthetics and the Subjective Turn 5. Emily's Will: George Gissing, Wage Labour and Aesthetic Desire 6. Sexuality and National Containment: E. M. Forster 7. Aim, Object and Fictional Strategy: Freud and Case Study Narrative Coda: The Burial of 'The Dead'. |