Public and Private: Gender, Class, and the British Novel (1764-1878)U of Minnesota Press, 1997 - 243 páginas This groundbreaking work examines the emergent and fluctuating relationship between the public and private social spheres of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By assessing novels such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Jane Austen's Emma through the lens of the social theories of Jurgen Habermas and Michel Foucault, Patricia McKee presents a fresh and highly original contribution to literary studies. |
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... 113 5. Gender as Order in Public and Private : East Lynne 152 6. Naturalizing Class and Gender Distinctions : The Return of the Native Conclusion Notes Index 186 219 225 239 Acknowledgments Many of the ideas in this book have been VII.
... 113 5. Gender as Order in Public and Private : East Lynne 152 6. Naturalizing Class and Gender Distinctions : The Return of the Native Conclusion Notes Index 186 219 225 239 Acknowledgments Many of the ideas in this book have been VII.
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... distinction and difference than is male knowl- edge . The female character tends to see herself as both subject and ob- ject ; she sees herself as an image of someone else and thus interchange- able with someone else . Less productive ...
... distinction and difference than is male knowl- edge . The female character tends to see herself as both subject and ob- ject ; she sees herself as an image of someone else and thus interchange- able with someone else . Less productive ...
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... distinctions of gen- der help to secure and maintain other distinctions — especially the sep- aration of public productivity from personal consumption useful to social order in the later nineteenth century . The capacity of proper men ...
... distinctions of gen- der help to secure and maintain other distinctions — especially the sep- aration of public productivity from personal consumption useful to social order in the later nineteenth century . The capacity of proper men ...
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... distinctions of upper and lower so- cial classes but instead conform to degrees of knowledge . Heights of abstract idealism and depths of ignorance belong to knowledgeable , productive men , on the one hand , and emotional , consuming ...
... distinctions of upper and lower so- cial classes but instead conform to degrees of knowledge . Heights of abstract idealism and depths of ignorance belong to knowledgeable , productive men , on the one hand , and emotional , consuming ...
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... distinctions between private and public realms of experience and between the kinds of knowledge produced and applied within those realms . It is a history of these distinctions , as represented by the- orists as well as novelists , that ...
... distinctions between private and public realms of experience and between the kinds of knowledge produced and applied within those realms . It is a history of these distinctions , as represented by the- orists as well as novelists , that ...
Contenido
Emma and Frankenstein | 47 |
Public Knowledge Common Knowledge | 113 |
East Lynne | 152 |
Conclusion | 219 |
Index | 239 |
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Public and Private: Gender, Class, and the British Novel (1764-1878) Patricia McKee Vista previa limitada - 1997 |
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