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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... emotional compo- nents of dependence and need , and reproduction , which would confuse the progressive character of knowledge in public spheres , are restricted to the private lives of women.7 In the private lives of women accumulates a ...
... emotional compo- nents of dependence and need , and reproduction , which would confuse the progressive character of knowledge in public spheres , are restricted to the private lives of women.7 In the private lives of women accumulates a ...
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... emotional , consuming women as well as uneducated men , on the other . What I am tracing in these chapters , then , are some of the ways that British literature was able to reform social experience through the eigh- teenth and ...
... emotional , consuming women as well as uneducated men , on the other . What I am tracing in these chapters , then , are some of the ways that British literature was able to reform social experience through the eigh- teenth and ...
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... emotional life in terms that clearly suit the individ- ual psyche to capitalist commodity consumption . Thus , market rela- tions are apparent in the most public as well as the most private life . My attention to gender also means ...
... emotional life in terms that clearly suit the individ- ual psyche to capitalist commodity consumption . Thus , market rela- tions are apparent in the most public as well as the most private life . My attention to gender also means ...
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... emotion , of their allegiance to a particular social group . Moreover , the fact that a " consumer mentality " becomes almost exclusively female in the later novels I consider means that the social fragmentations that Habermas ...
... emotion , of their allegiance to a particular social group . Moreover , the fact that a " consumer mentality " becomes almost exclusively female in the later novels I consider means that the social fragmentations that Habermas ...
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Contenido
Emma and Frankenstein | 47 |
Public Knowledge Common Knowledge | 113 |
East Lynne | 152 |
Conclusion | 219 |
Index | 239 |
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