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Curious subjects : women and the trials of realism /

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"While nineteenth-century literary scholars have long been interested in women's agency in the context of their legal status as objects, Curious Subjects makes the striking and original argument that what we find at the intersection between women subjects (who choose and enter into contrac...

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Main Author: Schor, Hilary Margo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Women and literature > England > History > 19th century.
Women > Identity.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Femmes et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes > Identité.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
LAW > Public.
English fiction
Women and literature
Women in literature
Women > Identity
England
1800-1899
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Curious Princess, the Novel and the Law
  • Part One. Forming the Novel: 1. The Making of the Curious Heroine: Enlightenment, Contract and the Novel; 2. Reading for the Test, Trying the Heroine: The Curiosity Defense; 3. Alice and the Curious Room
  • Part Two. Crossing the Threshold: 4. Was She Guilty or Not?: The Curious Heroine meets the wicked novelist; 5. Bleak House and The Curious Secrets: "Who Copied That"; 6. The Bluebeard of the Classroom: Bad Marriages, General Laws, and the Daughter's Curiosity; 7. George Eliot and the Curious Bride: Ghosts in the Daylight
  • Conclusion: The Clockwork Princess, or, Justice for the Dolls.