A Craving Vacancy

Author : Susan Ostrov Weisser
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814793053

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A Craving Vacancy by Susan Ostrov Weisser Pdf

What is the problem of sexual love? Neither inclusive of all aspects of sexuality nor fully synonomous with the idealized mythos of romantic love, sexual love as desire is marked by the highly charged intersection of sexuality and romantic love; it is a space where gender is imagined and enacted. In A Craving Vacancy, Susan Ostrov Weisser examines sexuality in the context of changing ideas of romantic love and feminity in Victorian Britain. Focusing her analysis on the works of Samuel Richardson, George Eliot, and Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Weisser reveals the complex relationship between conceptions of romantic passion and ideologies of sexuality. She illuminates the Victorian period as a time when these conceptions were shifting according to changing ideas of gender. With close attention to textual details, she introduces the concept of Moral Femininity, placing it in useful opposition to the competing Victorian ideal of the Lady. By forging a direct link between sexuality and romantic love ideology in the 19th century, and by highlighting the way in which the literary preoccupation with these subjects arises from anxieties about the construction of gender, A Craving Vacancy breaks important new ground.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438113951

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Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte by Harold Bloom Pdf

Presents a collection of nine critical essays about the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.

Author : Susan Ostrov Weisser,Jennifer Fleischner
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780814726204

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Feminist Nightmares by Susan Ostrov Weisser,Jennifer Fleischner Pdf

Though all women are women, no woman is only a woman, wrote Elizabeth Spelman in The Inessential Woman. Gone are the days when feminism translated simply into the advocacy of equality for women. Women's interests are not always aligned; race, class, and sexuality complicate the equation. In recent years, feminist ideologies have become increasingly diverse. Today, one feminist's most ardent political opponent may well be another feminist. As feminism grows increasingly diverse, the time has come to ask a painful and frequently avoided question: what does it mean for women to oppress women? This pathbreaking, provocative anthology addresses this troublesome dilemma from various feminist perspectives, offering an interdisciplinary collection of writings that widens our understanding of oppression to take into account women who are at odds. The book examines the social, political, and psychological ramifications of this phenomenon, as evidenced in a range of texts, from women's antislavery writing to women's anti-abortion writing, from mother-daughter incest stories to maternal surrogacy narratives, from the Bible to the popular romance nove, from Jane Austen to Alice Walker. The value of the volume is perhaps best summed up by an early response to the idea—This is a book that should never be written; feminists should concentrate on how men oppress women. Ironically, it is precisely because the subject triggers such responses, the authors argue, that a volume such as Feminist Nightmares has become a necessity.

Author : Joseph Crawford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472509123

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Gothic Fiction and the Invention of Terrorism by Joseph Crawford Pdf

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 This book examines the connections between the growth of'terror fiction' - the genre now known as 'Gothic' - in the late eighteenthcentury, and the simultaneous appearance of the conceptual origins of'terrorism' as a category of political action. In the 1790s, Crawford argues, fourinter-connected bodies of writing arose in Britain: the historical mythology ofthe French Revolution, the political rhetoric of 'terrorism', the genre ofpolitical conspiracy theory, and the literary genre of Gothic fiction, known atthe time as 'terrorist novel writing'. All four bodies of writing drew heavilyupon one another, in order to articulate their shared sense of the radical andmonstrous otherness of the extremes of human evil, a sense which was quite newto the eighteenth century, but has remained central to the ways in which wehave thought and written about evil and violence ever since.

Author : Susan Ostrov Weisser
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814793541

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Women and Romance by Susan Ostrov Weisser Pdf

Weisser (English, Adelphi U.) writes that her anthology is "for anyone who is interested in understanding the conflicted but powerful female urge to experience the pleasure and endure the pain of romantic love." In particular, she explores the collision of pervasive media images of romance with feminist values of independence and self-assertion. Several dozen historic and contemporary works of criticism, personal essays, and letters, by feminist and anti-feminist thinkers, consider changing images of romantic love and whether romance, fundamentally, weakens or empowers women. Contributors include Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charlotte Bronte, Karen Horney, Simone de Beauvoir, Rita Mae Brown, bell hooks, Vivian Gornick, and Carolyn Heilbrun. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Stefan Horlacher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349713257

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Transgender and Intersex: Theoretical, Practical, and Artistic Perspectives by Stefan Horlacher Pdf

This book takes both transgender and intersex positions into account and asks about commonalities and strategic alliances in terms of knowledge, theory, philosophy, art, and life experience. It strikes a balance between works on literature, film, photography, sports, law, and general theory, bringing together humanistic and social science approaches. Horlacher adopts a non-hierarchical perspective and asks how transgender and intersex issues are conceptualized from a variety of different viewpoints and to what extent artistic and creative discourses offer their own uniquely relevant forms of knowledge and expression.

Author : Charles Ottley Groom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026200511

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The Book of Nature and the Book of Man by Charles Ottley Groom Pdf

Author : Temma F. Berg
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0754655997

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The Lives and Letters of an Eighteenth-century Circle of Acquaintance by Temma F. Berg Pdf

"While most of the letter writers are unknown, four achieved prominence - the author Charlotte Lennox, the Reverend Thomas Winstanley, the navigator Charles Clerke, and the bluestocking Susannah Dobson. This book presents new perspectives on Lennox's and Winstanley's domestic lives, Clerke's ambiguous encounters with indigenous peoples, and Dobson's mysterious sexuality." "This book will appeal to eighteenth-century scholars as well as to scholars in women's and cultural studies. It will also be of interest to postcolonial, queer, and other literary theorists."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Charles Ottley Groom Napier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Literary forgeries and mystifications
ISBN : UCAL:B3261455

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Works of H.R. and M.S.H. the Prince of Mantua and Montferrat, Prince of Ferrara, Nevers, Réthel, and Alençon by Charles Ottley Groom Napier Pdf

Author : S. Horlacher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137015877

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Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present by S. Horlacher Pdf

An in-depth analysis into the construction of male identity as well as a unique and comprehensive historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed in British literature from the Middle Ages to the present. This book is an important contribution to the emerging field of masculinity studies.

Author : Charles Ottley Groom Napier (calling himself Prince of Mantua formerly Groom.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000587421

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The Book of Nature and the Book of Man ... by Charles Ottley Groom Napier (calling himself Prince of Mantua formerly Groom.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026623556

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Meis. Analytical Musings Upon the Lord's Prayer and Other Themes. [By C. H. Curtis.] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Heather Glen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191515156

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Charlotte Brontë: The Imagination in History by Heather Glen Pdf

This stimulating study of Charlotte Brontë's novels draws on extensive original research in a range of early Victorian writings, on subjects ranging from women's day-dreaming to sanitary reform, from the Great Exhibition to early Victorian religious thought. It is not, however, merely a study of context. Through a close consideration of the ways in which Brontë's novels engage with the thinking of their time, it offers a powerful argument for the "literary" as a distinctive mode of intelligence, and reveals a Charlotte Brontë more alert to her historical moment and far more aesthetically sophisticated than she has usually been taken to be. The study will be of interest not only to students of Victorian literature and society, but also to those literary critics and theorists who are beginning to reconsider the nature of the aesthetic and its relation to ideology.

Author : Foo Yong Kiang
Publisher : Foo Yong Kiang
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Career strengths discovery model by Foo Yong Kiang Pdf

This is a book that will help readers have a clearer view in discovering the potential strengths of each person to correctly determine the direction and best development direction for themselves. .

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011676454

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf