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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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Main Authors: Miller, Meredith.
Published:
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
English literature > Male authors > History and criticism.
English literature > History and criticism > 19th century.
English literature > History and criticism > 20th century.
Women in literature.
Femininity in literature.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers > English > c 1900 - c 1914. > c 1900 - c 1914.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 > English > c 1900 - c 1914. > c 1900 - c 1914.
Literary studies: from c 1900 - > English > c 1900 - c 1914. > c 1900 - c 1914.
Literature.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137341044
Summary: 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.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230355187, 2013.
Carrier Form: 232 p. : 6 b&w, ill.
ISBN: 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'.

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