Charlotte Fiehn

George Eliot and Her Women

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

George Eliot and Her Women explores George Eliotâ s engagement with gender, her representation of female characters, and her attitudes towards womenâ s issues during her lifetime. Examining the construction of her female characters throughout her prose fiction and poetry, it argues that Eliot powerfully advocated for women in her creative works.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781793646934
• ISBN-10: 1793646937
• Artikelnr.: 72699586

Autorenporträt

Charlotte Fiehn is instructor of writing and literature at Yeshiva University."

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1
Becoming George Eliot: Gender Criticism and Authorial Identity
Chapter 2
Gender and Genre in Scenes of Clerical Life
Chapter 3
Mirroring Reality: Hetty's Marginalization in Adam Bede
Chapter 4
Spoilt and Spoiling Women in "The Lifted Veil" and "Brother Jacob"
Chapter 5
Patriarchal Power and Sexual Desire in The Mill on the Floss
Chapter 6
Missing Women and Absent Mothers: Queer Parents and Female Agency in Silas
Marner
Chapter 7
Formal Challenges of Gender, Race, and Class in Romola
Chapter 8
Inheritance and Othering in Felix Holt
Chapter 9
Tragic Destiny in The Spanish Gypsy
Chapter 10
Poetry and Performance: Gender and Narrative in Eliot's Shorter Poetry
Chapter 11
Marriage and Miseducation In Middlemarch
Chapter 12
Agency, Artistry, and Asexuality in Daniel Deronda