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Scenes of Reading - Transforming Romance in Brontë, Eliot, and Woolf

English · Hardback

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This book combines biography, literature, and cultural and feminist theory to examine the radical critiques of patriarchy performed by Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf in Jane Eyre, Villette, The Mill on the Floss, The Voyage Out, and Orlando. The book's focus is how these novels revise the romance plot, abandoning this ancient and very political story line and creating in its place a much larger imaginary field in which female heroines as well as their readers can consider and experiment with other possibilities. Strikingly different from the swooning beauties of traditional romance, Jane Eyre, Lucy Snowe, Maggie Tulliver, Rachel Vinrace, and Orlando share a love of language and desire for intellectual expression that takes precedence over marriage and motherhood.

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Authors Nancy Cervetti
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.06.1998
 
EAN 9780820438054
ISBN 978-0-8204-3805-4
No. of pages 173
Weight 440 g
Series Writing About Women
Writing About Women Feminist Literary Studies
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies

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