Sex, Politics, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Erscheinungsjahr 1986
ISBN: 978-0-8018-4211-5
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 252 g

Reihe: Selected Papers from the English Institute

Six critics consider what is significantly not present or at least significantly well hidden in a provocative examination of the cultural anxieties that the nineteenth-century novel manipulates and conceals.

Probing the connections between literary and sexual politics, the authors question the absence of the police from Barchester Towers and the presence of homoeroticism in "The Beast in the Jungle." They consider the Victorian's sharpened sense of their own evanescence and the fin de siècle's fevered preoccupation with syphilis, the terror of "women people" in the naturalist novel, and the anxious connection between female authorship and prostitution in George Eliot. Throughout, they explore the ways in which the novel participates in society; Trollope and James are discussed alongside not only George Eliot and Hardy, Bram Stoker, and James Barrie but also nuneteenth-century economists and evolutionary biologists, with psychiatrists, sociologists, and even obstetricians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yeazell, Ruth Bernard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Yeazell, Ruth Bernard
Ruth Bernard Yeazell is professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is editor of The Death and Letters of Alice James and author of Language and Knowledge in the Late Novels of Henry James.