Fixing patriarchy : feminism and mid-Victorian male novelists /

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Author / Creator:Hall, Donald E. (Donald Eugene), 1960-
Imprint:New York : New York University Press, 1996.
Description:ix, 236 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2597015
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ISBN:0814735363 (hardcover)
0814735371 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-232) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Female Trouble: Nineteenth-Century Feminism and a Literature of Threat
  • 1. 'Betsy Prig ... Try the Cowcumbers, God Bless You!': Hierarchy, Transgression and Trouble in Martin Chuzzlewit
  • 2. Reading Tennyson Reading Fuller Reading Tennyson: The Anti-Feminism of The Princess
  • 3. Kingsley as Negotiator: Class/Gender Discord/Discourse in Yeast and Alton Locke
  • 4. Gender in the Marketplace: Contestation Accommodation in Thackeray's The Newcomes
  • 5. 'None of Your Eyes at Me': The Patriarchal Gaze in Little Dorrit
  • 6. Becoming One's Own Worst Enemy: Muscular Anxiety in Tom Brown's Schooldays
  • 7. From Margin to Center: Agency and Authority in the Novels of Wilkie Collins
  • 8. Great Expectations and Harsh Realities
  • Conclusion: Trollope on Women/Women in Trollope.