Trauma of Gender
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A01=Helene Moglen
alienation
Author_Helene Moglen
british literature
canon
castle of otranto
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clarissa
classics
daniel defoe
domestic realism
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gender studies
individualism
literary criticism
moll flanders
narrative theory
nonfiction
novel
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psychoanalytic theories
richardson
robinson crusoe
roxana
semiotics theory
sexuality
sterne
theory of the novel
tristram shandy
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western canon
Product details
- ISBN 9780520225893
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 2001
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Helene Moglen offers a revisionary feminist argument about the origins, cultural function, and formal structure of the English novel. While most critics and historians have associated the novel's emergence and development with the burgeoning of capitalism and the rise of the middle classes, Moglen contends that the novel principally came into being in order to manage the social and psychological strains of the modern sex-gender system. Rejecting the familiar claim that realism represents the novel's dominant tradition, she shows that, from its inception in the eighteenth century, the English novel has contained both realistic and fantastic narratives, which compete for primacy within individual texts.
Helene Moglen is Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among her publications are The Philosophical Irony of Laurence Sterne (1975), Charlotte Bronte The Self Conceived (1976), and Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism (California, 1997), which she coedited with Elizabeth Abel and Barbara Christian.
