Gender and the Intersubjective Sublime in Faulkner, Forster, Lawrence, and Woolf
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Erin K. Johns Speese
experience
feminist literary criticism
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Forster's Howards End
Forster’s Howards End
Free Indirect Discourse
Helen's Letter
Helen’s Letter
Homo Sacer
Howards End
identity theory
Intersubjective Connection
Intersubjective Sublime
Kantian Aesthetic Theorizations
Kantian Sublime
Leonard's Death
Leonard’s Death
Lily Briscoe's Painting
Lily Briscoe’s Painting
modernist literature
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parenthood studies
Paternal Repression
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Queer Family
Queer Figure
reciprocal empathy in modern novels
Reproductive Futurism
social objectification
Sublime Experience
Sublime Moment
Sublime Object
Sublime Subject
Traditional Sublime
Victorian Parents
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781472480392
- Weight: 362g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Sep 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Exploring how the modern novel's complex depictions of parenthood restructure traditional conceptions of the Romantic sublime, Erin K. Johns Speese shows how William Faulkner, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf use related strategies to rewrite the traditional sublime as an intersubjective experience. Speese shows that this reframing depends on the recognition of social objectification and an ethics of reciprocal empathy between mothers and fathers. She juxtaposes traditional aesthetics and Slavoj Žižek’s concept of the sublime object of ideology with recent theoretical work regarding identity, arguing that these modern novelists construct what she terms a "sublime subject," that is, a person who functions in the space of the traditional sublime object. In revealing the possibility of transcendent emotional connection over reason, these novelists critique the objectification of the other in favor of a sublime experience that reveals the subject-shattering power of empathy.
Erin K. Johns Speese is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Duquesne University, USA.
