Women and Romance The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel
According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lenno...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca
Cornell University Press
1990
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| Series: | Reading Women Writing
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| Summary: | According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues in feminist debate, in particular the relations of feminist to the poststructuralist theories of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault. In highlighting questions of gender in this way, Women and Romance contributes to a major debate between skeptical and materialist points of view among poststructuralist critics. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (288 p.) |
| ISBN: | nq3t-5h79 9781501723063 9780801424212 9781501723070 9781501728006 |
| Access: | Open Access |