Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf, Mary Jean Corbett
Автор: Corbett, Mary Jean Название: Family likeness ISBN: 0801447070 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801447075 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 10468.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
In nineteenth-century England, marriage between first cousins was both legally permitted and perfectly acceptable. After mid-century, laws did not explicitly penalize sexual relationships between parents and children, between siblings, or between grandparents and grandchildren. But for a widower to marry his deceased wife's sister was illegal on the grounds that it constituted incest. That these laws and the mores they reflect strike us today as wrongheaded indicates how much ideas about kinship, marriage, and incest have changed.
In Family Likeness, Mary Jean Corbett shows how the domestic fiction of novelists including Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront?, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Virginia Woolf reflected the shifting boundaries of "family" and even helped refine those borders. Corbett takes up historically contingent and culturally variable notions of who is and is not a relative and whom one can and cannot marry. Her argument is informed by legal and political debates; texts in sociology and anthropology; and discussions on the biology of heredity, breeding, and eugenics. In Corbett's view, marriage within families—between cousins, in-laws, or adoptees—offered Victorian women, both real and fictional, an attractive alternative to romance with a stranger, not least because it allowed them to maintain and strengthen relations with other women within the family.
Автор: Morris Pam Название: Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism ISBN: 1474437699 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474437691 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 3958.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Using close readings from `Sense and Sensibility`, `Mrs Dalloway`, `Emma`, `The Waves`, `Persuasion` and `The Years`, this bookdemonstrates the materialist sensibilities of Austen and Woolf.
Автор: Szasz, Thomas Название: My Madness Saved Me ISBN: 1412863112 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781412863117 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7195.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: G. Hudson Название: Sibling Love and Incest in Jane Austen`s Fiction ISBN: 0333752074 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333752074 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6288.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examines Austen`s presentation of sibling love and rivalry in the context of the social and historical changes in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and analyses the incest motif in numerous works of the period, arguing that the handling of incestuous themes represents a stage in the development of the novel. Originally published in 1992.
Автор: Morris Pam Название: Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism ISBN: 1474419135 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474419130 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 15048.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Who would have expected Jane Austen to be up-to-date on gun technology or Virginia Woolf to recognise the class politics of plumbing?
Austen and Woolf are materialists, this book argues. 'Things' in their novels give us entry into some of the most contentious issues of the day. This wholly materialist understanding produces worldly realism, an experimental writing practice which asserts egalitarian continuity between people, things and the physical world. This radical redistribution of the importance of material objects and biological existence, challenges the traditional idealist hierarchy of mind over matter that has justified gender, class and race subordination. Entering their writing careers at the critical moments of the French Revolution and the First World War respectively, and sharing a political inheritance of Scottish Enlightenment scepticism, Austen's and Woolf's rigorous critiques of the dangers of mental vision unchecked by facts is more timely than ever in the current world dominated by fundamentalist neo-liberal, religious and nationalist belief systems.
Key Features
The book uses close readings from Sense and Sensibility, Mrs Dalloway, Emma, The Waves, Persuasion and The Years to demonstrate the materialist sensibilities of Austen and Woolf
It traces the anti-individualism of their view of self and consciousness as deriving from embodied experience
Each chapter foregrounds the constitutive interrelationship of things, people, social and physical worlds
The book reconceptualises a progressive view of realism - worldly realism - drawing upon Jacques Ranciиre's thesis that a new democratic aesthetic regime is inaugurated around the end of the eighteenth century
Автор: Szasz, Thomas Название: My Madness Saved Me ISBN: 0765803216 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780765803214 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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