Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and Culture
Susan David Bernstein
Susan Bernstein examines the gendered power relationships embedded in confessional literature of the Victorian period. Exploring this dynamic in Charlotte Bront?'s "Villette" Mary Elizabeth Braddon's "Lady Audley's Secret" George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda" and Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" she argues that although women's disclosures to male confessors repeatedly depict wrongdoing committed against them, they themselves are viewed as the transgressors. Bernstein emphasizes the secularization of confession, but she also places these narratives within the context of the anti-Catholic tract literature of the time.
カテゴリー:
年:
1997
出版社:
University of North Carolina Press
言語:
english
ISBN 10:
0807823139
ISBN 13:
9780807823132
ファイル:
EPUB, 502 KB
IPFS:
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english, 1997