Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists by D. Hall (English

Description: Fixing Patriarchy by D. Hall An exploration of representations of monstrous women in mid-Victorian literature, tracing anxious male responses to the feminist movement of the era. It argues that Victorian patriarchy was a fluid theory and set of practices through which Victorian men attempted to fix gender definitions and their own positions of power. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists explores representations of monstrous women in mid-Victorian literature, tracing anxious male responses to the feminist movement of the era. It argues that Victorian patriarchy was a fluid theory and set of practices through which Victorian men attempted unsuccessfully to fix gender definitions and their own positions of power. In Victorian novels written by men, the thorough instability of contemporary conceptions of both masculinity and femininity is revealed, as an entire society struggled with new forms of self-awareness and new threats to traditional social structures and systems of belief. Author Biography DONALD E. HALL is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of English at California State University, Northridge, where he teaches Victorian literature, feminist theory, and queer studies. He is the author of Muscular Christianity: Embodying the Victorian Age, and co-editor of RePresenting Bisexualities. Table of Contents Acknowledgements - Introduction: Female Trouble: Nineteenth-Century Feminism and a Literature of Threat - PART 1: THE 1840s - Betsy Prig...try the cowcumbers, God Bless You!: Hierarchy, Transgression, and Trouble in Martin Chuzzlewit - Reading Tennyson Reading Fuller Reading Tennyson: The Anti-Feminism of The Princess - Kingsley as Negotiator: Class/Gender Discord/Discourse in Yeast and Alton Locke - PART 2: THE 1850s - Gender in the Marketplace: Contestation and Accommodation in Thackerays The Newcomes - None of your eyes at me: The Patriarchal Gaze in Little Dorrit - Becoming Ones Own Worst Enemy: Muscular Anxiety in Tom Browns Schooldays - PART 3: THE 1860s - From Margin to Centre: Agency and Authority in the Novels of Wilkie Collins - Great Expectations and Harsh Realities - Conclusion: Trollope on Women/Women in Trollope - Works Cited Details ISBN033365577X Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Year 1996 ISBN-10 033365577X ISBN-13 9780333655771 Format Hardcover Publication Date 1996-09-25 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.809352042 Place of Publication Basingstoke Short Title FIXING PATRIARCHY 1996/E Edition Description 1996 Language English Media Book Pages 236 AU Release Date 1996-09-25 NZ Release Date 1996-09-25 UK Release Date 1996-09-25 Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black and white; IX, 236 p. 1 illus. Author D. Hall Alternative 9780333655788 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:98293549;

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