An edition of Scenes of reading (1998)

Scenes of reading

transforming romance in Brontë, Eliot, and Woolf

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An edition of Scenes of reading (1998)

Scenes of reading

transforming romance in Brontë, Eliot, and Woolf

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This book combines biography, literature, and cultural and feminist theory to examine the radical critiques of patriarchy performed by Charlotte Bronte, 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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Publisher
P. Lang
Language
English
Pages
173

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-169) and index.

Published in
New York
Series
Writing about women,, vol. 24

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.809352042
Library of Congress
PR878.W6 C47 1998, PR878.W6C47 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 173 p. ;
Number of pages
173

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL663002M
Internet Archive
scenesofreadingt0000cerv
ISBN 10
0820438057
LCCN
97008513
OCLC/WorldCat
36746330
Goodreads
2708444

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