Fiction International 39
Fiction International 39
By:Harold Jaffe
Published on 2006-01-01 by Fiction International
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Desire and Domestic Fiction
Desire and Domestic Fiction By:Nancy Armstrong Published on 1987-05-07 by Oxford University Press Click The Button Below To Download The Book Desire and Domestic Fictionargues that far from being removed from historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were themselves agents of the rise of the middle class. Drawing on texts that range from 18th-century female conduct books and contract theory to modern psychoanalytic case histories and theories of reading, Armstrong shows that the emergence of a particular form of female subjectivity capable of reigning over the household paved the way for the establishment of institutions which today are accepted centers of political power. Neither passive subjects nor embattled rebels, the middle-class women who were authors and subjects of the major tradition of British fiction were among the forgers of a new form of power that worked in, and through, their writing to replace prevailing notions of |identity| with a gender-determine...
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