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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... nineteenth centuries . My primary focus is on knowledge : its production and its distribution and how these organize ... century to provide stable categories of experience . The eighteenth - century public sphere appeared unstable to ...
... nineteenth centuries . My primary focus is on knowledge : its production and its distribution and how these organize ... century to provide stable categories of experience . The eighteenth - century public sphere appeared unstable to ...
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... nineteenth - century novels . Whereas in the eighteenth century patterns of increasing and open - ended productivity and consumption are seen to threaten stability because they occur as dynamic and interactive processes , by the later ...
... nineteenth - century novels . Whereas in the eighteenth century patterns of increasing and open - ended productivity and consumption are seen to threaten stability because they occur as dynamic and interactive processes , by the later ...
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... nineteenth century , and her assertion is supported by the texts I examine . My emphasis is on ways that distinctions of gen- der help to secure and maintain other distinctions — especially the sep- aration of public productivity from ...
... nineteenth century , and her assertion is supported by the texts I examine . My emphasis is on ways that distinctions of gen- der help to secure and maintain other distinctions — especially the sep- aration of public productivity from ...
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... nineteenth - century knowledge in the public domain , including scientific and historical knowledge , may be said to cultivate realms of unknown and unknow- able phenomena . Nineteenth - century novelists identify cultivations of ...
... nineteenth - century knowledge in the public domain , including scientific and historical knowledge , may be said to cultivate realms of unknown and unknow- able phenomena . Nineteenth - century novelists identify cultivations of ...
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... century , capitalism , with its growth , its dependence on expanding markets ... nineteenth cen- tury , processes of production and consumption not only ... centuries , for example , have argued that the representation of subjec- tivity ...
... century , capitalism , with its growth , its dependence on expanding markets ... nineteenth cen- tury , processes of production and consumption not only ... centuries , for example , have argued that the representation of subjec- tivity ...
Contenido
Emma and Frankenstein | 47 |
Public Knowledge Common Knowledge | 113 |
East Lynne | 152 |
Conclusion | 219 |
Index | 239 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Public and Private: Gender, Class, and the British Novel (1764-1878) Patricia McKee Vista previa limitada - 1997 |
Public and Private: Gender, Class, and the British Novel (1764-1878) Patricia McKee Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |
Public and Private: Gender, Class, and the British Novel (1764-1878) Patricia McKee Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |
Términos y frases comunes
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