The Trauma of Gender: A Feminist Theory of the English Novel

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-520-22589-3
Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 345 g

Helene Moglen offers a revisionary feminist argument about the origins, cultural function, and formal structure of the English novel. While most critics and historians have associated the novel's emergence and development with the burgeoning of capitalism and the rise of the middle classes, Moglen contends that the novel princi- pally came into being in order to manage the social and psychological strains of the modern sex-gender system. Rejecting the familiar claim that realism represents the novel's dominant tradition, she shows that, from its inception in the eighteenth century, the English novel has contained both realistic and fantastic narratives, which compete for primacy within individual texts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moglen, Helene

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.