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The Resource Feminine subjects in masculine fiction : modernity, will and desire, 1870-1910, Meredith Miller, (electronic book)

Feminine subjects in masculine fiction : modernity, will and desire, 1870-1910, Meredith Miller, (electronic book)

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Summary
This book examines the proliferation of troubled, unstable and unreadable female figures in the English novels written by men between 1870 and 1910. This period saw the birth of literary modernism, the advent of psychoanalysis and the first wave of feminism. The faculty of will and the experience of desire structure a troubled relationship to modernity during this period. The tension between them is located in the feminine subject of popular fiction. Chapters focus on the work of Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, George Gissing, Henry James, E.M. Forster and finally and briefly, James Joyce. These male novelists were far more engaged in the project of imagining a new feminine agency than their counterparts during feminism's second wave. The monograph focuses on the tension in their work between woman as aesthetic object of the novel and woman as troubling subject of a new modern consciousness. Inscrutable and troubling female characters were the ground on which fiction staged its move from the popular into high art
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource.
Contents
  • Wilkie Collins and narrative containment
  • Anthony Trollope: gender, law and the psychological
  • Density, will and desire: Henry James, aesthetics and the subjective turn
  • Emily's will: George Gissing, wage labour and aesthetic desire
  • Sexuality and national containment: E.M. Forster
  • Aim, object and fictional strategy: Freud and case study narrative
  • Coda: The burial of "The dead."
Isbn
9780230355187
Instance
Label
Feminine subjects in masculine fiction : modernity, will and desire, 1870-1910
Title
Feminine subjects in masculine fiction
Title remainder
modernity, will and desire, 1870-1910
Statement of responsibility
Meredith Miller
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
This book examines the proliferation of troubled, unstable and unreadable female figures in the English novels written by men between 1870 and 1910. This period saw the birth of literary modernism, the advent of psychoanalysis and the first wave of feminism. The faculty of will and the experience of desire structure a troubled relationship to modernity during this period. The tension between them is located in the feminine subject of popular fiction. Chapters focus on the work of Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, George Gissing, Henry James, E.M. Forster and finally and briefly, James Joyce. These male novelists were far more engaged in the project of imagining a new feminine agency than their counterparts during feminism's second wave. The monograph focuses on the tension in their work between woman as aesthetic object of the novel and woman as troubling subject of a new modern consciousness. Inscrutable and troubling female characters were the ground on which fiction staged its move from the popular into high art
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UKPGM
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1965-
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Miller, Meredith
Dewey number
823/.809352042
Index
index present
LC call number
PR878.W6
LC item number
M46 2013
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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  • English fiction
  • English fiction
  • Women in literature
  • Femininity in literature
  • Sex role in literature
  • English fiction
Label
Feminine subjects in masculine fiction : modernity, will and desire, 1870-1910, Meredith Miller, (electronic book)
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Contents
Wilkie Collins and narrative containment -- Anthony Trollope: gender, law and the psychological -- Density, will and desire: Henry James, aesthetics and the subjective turn -- Emily's will: George Gissing, wage labour and aesthetic desire -- Sexuality and national containment: E.M. Forster -- Aim, object and fictional strategy: Freud and case study narrative -- Coda: The burial of "The dead."
Control code
SPR844770491
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource.
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780230355187
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • c
Reproduction note
Electronic resource.
Specific material designation
remote
Label
Feminine subjects in masculine fiction : modernity, will and desire, 1870-1910, Meredith Miller, (electronic book)
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Contents
Wilkie Collins and narrative containment -- Anthony Trollope: gender, law and the psychological -- Density, will and desire: Henry James, aesthetics and the subjective turn -- Emily's will: George Gissing, wage labour and aesthetic desire -- Sexuality and national containment: E.M. Forster -- Aim, object and fictional strategy: Freud and case study narrative -- Coda: The burial of "The dead."
Control code
SPR844770491
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource.
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780230355187
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • c
Reproduction note
Electronic resource.
Specific material designation
remote

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