Renzi An Ethic of Innocence

Pragmatism, Modernity, and Women's Choice Not to Know
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7598-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Offers a feminist theory of ignorance that sheds light on the misunderstood or overlooked epistemic practices of women in literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Renzi, Kristen L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Problem of Modern Female Innocence

Part I. Negotiated Living

1. A Pragmatist’s Dilemma: The Collusion between Myth and Reality in the Tale of the Hull House Devil Baby

2. Coming of Age via Critical Complaint: Reading Women’s Choices Not to Know in Realist Bildungsroman

3. A Failure of Sympathy or of Narrative? Naturalism’s Jaded Women and the Narrative Cycle of Domestic Violence

4. The Legacy of Naturalism, a Cycle of Leaving: Reading Agency in the Passive, Empty Woman

Part II. Pragmatic Fantasies

5. Are Women People? Discourses of (Non)Personhood in Suffrage Poetry and Protest

6. Making Women, Making Humans: Fantasies and Melancholic Mourning in Modern Sex Changes and Sex Losses

7. Allowing Innocence? Belief, Knowledge, and the Modern Community

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kristen L. Renzi is Associate Professor of English at Xavier University.