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Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and Culture

Name: Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9780807823132

Susan David Bernstein

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Susan Bernstein examines the gendered power relationships embedded in confessional literature of the Victorian period. Exploring this dynamic in Charlotte Bront?'s "Villette" Mary Elizabeth Braddon's "Lady Audley's Secret" George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda" and Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" she argues that although women's disclosures to male confessors repeatedly depict wrongdoing committed against them, they themselves are viewed as the transgressors. Bernstein emphasizes the secularization of confession, but she also places these narratives within the context of the anti-Catholic tract literature of the time.

Categorias:

Fiction

Ano:

1997

Editora:

University of North Carolina Press

Idioma:

english

ISBN 10:

0807823139

ISBN 13:

9780807823132