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Robinson sets up a dialogue between feminist critical theory and contemporary women's fiction in order to argue for a new way of reading the specificity of women's writing. Through theoretically informed readings of novels by Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, and Gayl Jones, the author argues that female subjectivity is engendered in discourse through the woman writer's strategic engagement in representational systems that rely on a singular figure of Woman for coherence. Through this engagement, women's self-representation emerges as a process through which women take up multiple and contradictory positions in relation to different hegemonic discursive systems, and through which they engender themselves as subjects. Finally, Engendering the Subject suggests how women's fiction can provide a model for a feminist practice of reading that would simultaneously work against the historical containment of Woman, and for the empowerment of women as subjects of cultural practices.
Fiction --- Sociology of literature --- Thematology --- Lessing, Doris --- Carter, Angela --- Jones, Gayl --- English fiction --- Feminism and literature --- Feminist fiction, English --- Gender identity in literature. --- Psychological fiction, English --- Self in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Women and literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- Gender identity in literature --- Sex role in literature --- Self in literature --- History and criticism --- Lessing, Doris May, --- Carter, Angela, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Criticism and interpretation. --- English literature --- Women authors&delete& --- Lessing, Doris, --- Lesing, Dorisŭ, --- Лессинг, Дорис, --- לסינג, דוריס, --- Tayler, Doris May, --- Somers, Jane, --- Stalker, Angela Olive, --- Carter, Angela Olive, --- Carter, Angela Olive Stalker, --- Stalker, Angela Olive --- Carter, Angela Olive --- Carter, Angela Olive Stalker --- English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- Psychological fiction, English - History and criticism --- Feminist fiction, English - History and criticism --- Feminism and literature - History - 20th century --- Women and literature - History - 20th century --- Lessing, Doris, - 1919-2013 - Criticism and interpretation --- Carter, Angela, - 1940- - Criticism and interpretation. --- Jones, Gayl - Criticism and interpretation --- Lessing, Doris, - 1919-2013 --- Carter, Angela, - 1940 --- -Jones, Gayl
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This analysis of the writings of two major Victorian intellectuals examines the crucial place of gender in the larger Victorian debate about nature, religion, and evolutionary theory. Demonstrating the primacy of Herbert Spencer's influence on George Eliot's thought, Nancy Paxton discloses the continuous dialogue between this profoundly learned novelist and one of the most formidable and influential scientific authorities of her time. Using rarely cited first editions of Spencer's published works, Paxton reveals that Eliot and Spencer initially agreed in supporting several of the goals of early Victorian feminism when they met in 1851. Paxton surveys all of Spencer's writing to show when and why he repudiated his early feminism and demonstrates Eliot's determined resistance to the most conservative tendencies of evolutionary theory in her representation of female sexuality, motherhood, feminist ambition, and desire. In comparing Eliot's and Spencer's evolutionary "reconstruction of gender," the book draws on a wide variety of biographical, literary, and critical texts and on interdisciplinary scholarship about the relation between scientific and literary discourse in the nineteenth century. By thus reassessing Eliot's contribution to feminist thought, it presents a revolutionary reading of her novels which is informed by contemporary feminist criticism and the new historicism. "This is an important book because of the questions it raises, the issues it covers, and the illumination it brings to Eliot and Spencer and to crucial problems in the nineteenth century: Paxton looks at the ways scientific data get turned into arguments about the nature of women in society, about women and education, about women and sexuality. This work shows how truly current Eliot's novels are, no matter what their setting."--Barry Qualls, Rutgers UniversityOriginally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Evolution (Biology) in literature --- Feminism and literature --- Gender identity in literature --- Literature and science --- Sex role in literature --- Women in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History --- Eliot, George, --- Spencer, Herbert --- Cross, Marian Evans, --- Evans, Marian, --- Eliot, Džordž, --- Ėliot, Dzhordzh, --- Cross, Mary Ann, --- Lewes, M. E. --- Lewes, Marian Evans, --- Elliŏtʻū, Choji, --- Eliyaṭ, Jārj, --- Evans, Mary Anne, --- אליוט, ג׳ַַורג׳ --- אליוט, ג׳ורג׳, --- עליאט, דזשארדזש --- עליאט, דזשארדזש, --- עליוט ג׳יארג׳, --- עליוט, גי׳ארג׳, --- עליוט, ג׳רארג׳, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Thematology --- English literature --- Eliot, George --- Eliot, George, -- 1819-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Evolution (Biology) in literature. --- Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. --- Sex role in literature. --- Spencer, Herbert, -- 1820-1903 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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English fiction --- Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- Sex role in literature. --- Self in literature. --- Psychological fiction, English --- Feminist fiction, English --- Gender identity in literature --- Sex role in literature --- Self in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Literature --- English psychological fiction --- English literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism --- Lessing, Doris, --- Carter, Angela, --- Jones, Gayl --- Carter, Angela --- Stalker, Angela Olive --- Carter, Angela Olive --- Carter, Angela Olive Stalker --- Lessing, Doris May, --- Lesing, Dorisŭ, --- Лессинг, Дорис, --- לסינג, דוריס, --- Tayler, Doris May, --- Somers, Jane, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Lessing, Doris --- Literature and feminism
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