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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... natural physical systems.1 Such revisions of knowledge — knowledge of individuals and social systems both - will be the focus of my discussions of eighteenth- and nineteenth - century novels . Whereas in the eighteenth century patterns ...
... natural physical systems.1 Such revisions of knowledge — knowledge of individuals and social systems both - will be the focus of my discussions of eighteenth- and nineteenth - century novels . Whereas in the eighteenth century patterns ...
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... natural . Whereas Dickens insists that the capacity of modern knowl- edge to do little more than reproduce its own terms is a situation re- quiring change , Hardy depicts knowledge as necessarily and naturally so limited by its own ...
... natural . Whereas Dickens insists that the capacity of modern knowl- edge to do little more than reproduce its own terms is a situation re- quiring change , Hardy depicts knowledge as necessarily and naturally so limited by its own ...
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... natural supply . Production will increase population only by using up resources ; growth , then , contains within itself both increase and increasing scarcity . Once economists late in the century reimpose checks on growth INTRODUCTION 15.
... natural supply . Production will increase population only by using up resources ; growth , then , contains within itself both increase and increasing scarcity . Once economists late in the century reimpose checks on growth INTRODUCTION 15.
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... natural scarcity , Foucault argues , the transcendental dynamic of economics suspends human effort between life and death : " Homo oeconomicus is not the human being who represents his own needs to himself , and the objects capable of ...
... natural scarcity , Foucault argues , the transcendental dynamic of economics suspends human effort between life and death : " Homo oeconomicus is not the human being who represents his own needs to himself , and the objects capable of ...
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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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