Fixing Patriarchy
Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists
Published on 3. October 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
IX, 236 pages
978-0-333-65578-8 (ISBN)
Description
Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists explores representations of monstrous women in mid-Victorian literature, tracing anxious male responses to the feminist movement of the era. It argues that Victorian patriarchy was a fluid theory and set of practices through which Victorian men attempted unsuccessfully to fix gender definitions and their own positions of power. In Victorian novels written by men, the thorough instability of contemporary conceptions of both masculinity and femininity is revealed, as an entire society struggled with new forms of self-awareness and new threats to traditional social structures and systems of belief.
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Edition
1996 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung
IX, 236 p. 1 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
290 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-65578-8 (9780333655788)
DOI
10.1057/9780230389540
Schweitzer Classification
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Book
09/1996
Palgrave Macmillan
€106.99
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Person
DONALD E. HALL is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of English at California State University, Northridge, where he teaches Victorian literature, feminist theory, and queer studies. He is the author of
Muscular Christianity: Embodying the Victorian Age
, and co-editor of
RePresenting Bisexualities.
Content
Acknowledgements - Introduction: Female Trouble: Nineteenth-Century Feminism and a Literature of Threat - PART 1: THE 1840s - 'Betsy Prig...try the cowcumbers, God Bless You!': Hierarchy, Transgression, and Trouble in Martin Chuzzlewit - Reading Tennyson Reading Fuller Reading Tennyson: The Anti-Feminism of The Princess - Kingsley as Negotiator: Class/Gender Discord/Discourse in Yeast and Alton Locke - PART 2: THE 1850s - Gender in the Marketplace: Contestation and Accommodation in Thackeray's The Newcomes - 'None of your eyes at me': The Patriarchal Gaze in Little Dorrit - Becoming One's Own Worst Enemy: Muscular Anxiety in Tom Brown's Schooldays - PART 3: THE 1860s - From Margin to Centre: Agency and Authority in the Novels of Wilkie Collins - Great Expectations and Harsh Realities - Conclusion: Trollope on Women/Women in Trollope - Works Cited