Patriarchal desire and Victorian discourse
Subtitle: a Lacanian reading of Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels
By: Priscilla L. Walton.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882.; Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 -- Characters -- Women.; Lacan, Jacques, 1901-; Women in literature.; Patriarchy in literature.; Masculinity in literature.; Sex role in literature.
Description: While there have been studies examining Trollope from a feminist perspective, very little work has taken into consideration the questions raised by contemporary critical theory. Patriarchal Desire and Victorian Discourse is unique in that it links feminist analysis with psychoanalytic theory, and brings both to bear on an examination of Trollope's writings. The feminist Lacanian analysis employed by Priscilla L. Walton offers a new perspective on the dominant Victorian cultural dynamic.

She explains how the works serve as complex and ultimately double-edged exemplars of patriarchal desire and masculinist discourse.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-176) and index.