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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... relation to the world around them women produce more confusions than distinctions , and because of women's own undifferentiated status as something other than distinguished individuals . Not practicing knowledge as differen- tiation ...
... relation to the world around them women produce more confusions than distinctions , and because of women's own undifferentiated status as something other than distinguished individuals . Not practicing knowledge as differen- tiation ...
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... relations between public and private spheres in eighteenth- and nineteenth - century Britain . For Habermas as for McKeon and Armstrong , a critical , reflexive subjectivity is the ctucial characteristic of political life in eighteenth ...
... relations between public and private spheres in eighteenth- and nineteenth - century Britain . For Habermas as for McKeon and Armstrong , a critical , reflexive subjectivity is the ctucial characteristic of political life in eighteenth ...
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... relations increased , state and society permeated each other , resulting in what Habermas calls a " Blurred Blueprint " ( 175 ) . A similar blurring of the boundaries of pri- vate life occurred as the economic sphere of family life was ...
... relations increased , state and society permeated each other , resulting in what Habermas calls a " Blurred Blueprint " ( 175 ) . A similar blurring of the boundaries of pri- vate life occurred as the economic sphere of family life was ...
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... relations , " Haber- mas argues , it is to some extent " refeudalized " ( 200 ) . One evidence of this is that consumption is classed . But Habermas's emphasis is on the return of an unexamined correlation between representation and au ...
... relations , " Haber- mas argues , it is to some extent " refeudalized " ( 200 ) . One evidence of this is that consumption is classed . But Habermas's emphasis is on the return of an unexamined correlation between representation and au ...
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... relations.16 But I will be discussing both the state administration that developed in Britain in the early nineteenth century and market relations as public spheres of experience . Both the state and market re- lations alter Habermas's ...
... relations.16 But I will be discussing both the state administration that developed in Britain in the early nineteenth century and market relations as public spheres of experience . Both the state and market re- lations alter Habermas's ...
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 |
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 |
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