Trauma of Gender - A Feminist Theory of the English Novel

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List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Gender Politics of Narrative Modes
1. Daniel Defoe and the Gendered Subject of Individualism
2. Clarissa and the Pornographic Imagination
3. (W)holes and Noses: The Indeterminacies of Tristram Shandy
4. Horace Walpole and the Nightmare of History
Conclusion: The Relation of Fiction and Theory
Notes
Works Cited
Index

About the author

Helene Moglen is Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among her publications are The Philosophical Irony of Laurence Sterne (1975), Charlotte Brontë The Self Conceived (1976), and Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism (California, 1997), which she coedited with Elizabeth Abel and Barbara Christian.

Summary

Offers a revisionary feminist argument about the origins, cultural function, and formal structure of the English novel. This title contends that the novel principally came into being in order to manage the social and psychological strains of the modern sex-gender system.

Product details

• Authors: Helene Moglen, Moglen Helene
• Assisted by: Helene Moglen (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2001
• EAN: 9780520225893
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22589-3
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary theory, Semiotics / semiology