Woman Rules Within

Domestic Space and Genre in Qing Vernacular Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43746-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 478 g

Reihe: Women and Gender in China Studies

In Woman Rules Within: Domestic Space and Genre in Qing Vernacular Literature, Jessica Dvorak Moyer compares depictions of household space and women’s networks in texts across a range of genres from about 1600 to 1800 C.E. Analyzing vernacular transformations of classical source texts as well as vernacular stories and novels, Moyer shows that vernacular genres use expansive detail about architectural space and the everyday domestic world to navigate a variety of ideological tensions, particularly that between qing (emotion) and li (ritual propriety), and to flesh out characters whose actions challenge the norms of gendered spatial practice even as they ultimately uphold the gender order. Woman Rules Within contributes a new understanding of the role of colloquial language in late imperial literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dvorak Moyer, Jessica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Jessica Dvorak Moyer, Ph.D. (Yale, 2015) is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Smith College. Her published research, most recently “Savvy Women and Boundary Negotiations in Qing Fiction” (Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, 2019), focuses on Ming and Qing Chinese literature.