Desire and domestic fiction : a political history of the novel /
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| Author / Creator: | Armstrong, Nancy, 1938- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1987. |
| Description: | x, 300 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/799517 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Politics of Domesticating Culture, Then and Now
- 1.. The Rise of Female Authority in the Novel
- The Logic of the Social Contract
- The Logic of the Sexual Contract
- The Sexual Contract as Narrative Paradigm
- The Sexual Contract as Narrative Process
- 2.. The Rise of the Domestic Woman
- The Book of Class Sexuality
- A Country House That is Not a Country House
- Labor That is Not Labor
- Economy That is Not Money
- The Power of Feminization
- 3.. The Rise of the Novel
- The Battle of the Books
- Strategies of Self-Production: Pamela
- The Self Contained: Emma
- 4.. History in the House of Culture
- The Rhetoric of Violence: 1819
- The Rhetoric of Disorder: 1832
- The Politics of Domestic Fiction: 1848
- Figures of Desire: The Brontes
- 5.. Seduction and the Scene of Reading
- The Woman's Museum: Jane Eyre
- Modern Men: Shirley and the Fuegians
- Modern Women: Dora and Mrs. Brown
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index