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Anne's Initiation
Author_Sonjeong Cho
awakening
British women novelists
Captain Benwick
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Currer Bell
daniel
Daniel Deronda
deronda
Emma's Imagination
English Bildungsroman
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erotic
Erotic Awakening
Erotic Subjectivity
ethics of feminine subjectivity
Fairy Tale
Female Bildungsroman
female Bildungsroman analysis
Feminine Subjectivity
Feminist Literary Criticism
feminist literary theory
gender performativity
Graham's Letter
gwendolen
Gwendolen Harleth
Gynocentric Feminism
harleth
ich
Irigaray's Ethics
James's Fascination
Jane Eyres
Live Burial
Lucy Snowe
Lydia Glasher
marriage
Marriage Plot
nineteenth-century literature
Performative Subjectivity
plot
poststructuralist feminism
Strategic Positionality
subjectivity
Thornfield Hall
Product details
- ISBN 9780415869485
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In attempting to conceptualize feminine subjectivity beyond the familiar paradigm of dualism and within the parameters of ethics, this study examines the political and intellectual identity of contemporary poststructuralist feminism and its profound resonance with the nineteenth-century British female Bildungsroman. Rooted in fundamental questions about the nexus between feminist theory and feminist literature, genre and gender, subjectivity and ethics, sexuality and textuality, and mimesis and politics, this book aims specifically to configure feminine subjectivity in the horizon of becoming - always incomplete, non-identarian, performative, unknowable, and thus paradoxically unbecoming - as it disseminates in a modality of alterity in novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot. The close reading of major novels by these women writers illuminates the artistic density and ethical depth of their writing by demonstrating that these women writers rewrite the genealogy of subjectivity and invent their own Bildungsroman as a rich narrative vehicle for the feminine.
San Jeong Cho is currently teaching at Seoul National University, South Korea.
