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Curious Subjects - Women and the Trials of Realism

English · Paperback / Softback

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Curious Subjects makes the striking and original argument that what we find at the intersection between women subjects (who choose and enter into contracts) and women objects (owned and defined by fathers, husbands, and the law) is curiosity.

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  • INTRODUCTION: The Curious Princess, the Novel and the Law

  • Part One: Forming the Novel

  • Chapter One: The Making of the Curious Heroine: Enlightenment, Contract and the Novel

  • Chapter Two: Reading for the Test, Trying the Heroine: The Curiosity Defense

  • Chapter Three: Alice and the Curious Room

  • Part Two: Crossing the Threshold

  • Chapter Four: Was She Guilty or Not?: The Curious Heroine Meets the Wicked Novelist

  • Chapter Five: Bleak House and The Curious Secrets: "Who Copied That"

  • Chapter Six: The Bluebeard of the Classroom: Bad Marriages, General Laws, and the Daughter's Curiosity

  • Chapter Seven: George Eliot and the Curious Bride: Ghosts in the Daylight

  • Conclusion: The Clockwork Princess, or, Justice for the Dolls



About the author

Hilary M. Schor is Professor of English, Comparative Literature and Law at the University of Southern California, where she co-directs the USC Center for Law, History and Culture. She is the author of Dickens and the Daughter of the House and Scheherezade in the Marketplace: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Novel.

Summary

Curious Subjects makes the striking and original argument that what we find at the intersection between women subjects (who choose and enter into contracts) and women objects (owned and defined by fathers, husbands, and the law) is curiosity.

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