Feminine Subjects in Masculine Fiction [electronic resource] : Modernity, Will and Desire, 1870-1910 /
Miller, M.author.
Between 1870 and 1910 male authors were actively engaged with imagining new possibilities for women, at the same time as the central female figure continued to function as a troubling and unreachable object of aesthetic desire. This book examines these inscrutable female characters who were the ground on which fiction reinvented itself as Art.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Wilkie Collins and narrative containment -- Anthony Trollope: gender, law and the psychological -- Density, will and desire: Henry James, aesthetics and the subjective turn -- Emily's will: George Gissing, wage labour and aesthetic desire -- Sexuality and national containment: E. M. Forster -- Aim, object and fictional strategy: Freud and case study narrative -- Coda: The burial of "The dead".
Between 1870 and 1910 male authors were actively engaged with imagining new possibilities for women, at the same time as the central female figure continued to function as a troubling and unreachable object of aesthetic desire. This book examines these inscrutable female characters who were the ground on which fiction reinvented itself as Art.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Sociology.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
British literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Gender Studies.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.