Description
This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyzes power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This volume is the first to reshape Victorian studies from the perspective of the postmodern return to history, and is variously influenced by Marxism, sociology, anthropology, and post-structuralist theories of language and subjectivity. It analyzes the struggle for legitimacy and recognition in Victorian institutions and the struggle over meanings in ideological representation of the gendered subject in texts.
Contributors cover diverse topics, including Victorian ideologies of motherhood, the male gaze, the cult of the male child genius in narrative painting, the press, and Victorian women and the French Revolution, discussing both well-known and less familiar Victorian texts.
About the Author
Linda M. Shires is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Stern College, Yeshiva University, New York.
Book Information
ISBN 9780415752374
Author Linda M. Shires
Format Paperback
Page Count 4
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 294g
