| Description |
1 online resource (237 pages) |
| Series |
Textxet: studies in comparative literature ; Volume 80 |
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Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 80.
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| Contents |
Bronte or belly identity as barrier in the works of Charlotte and Emily Bronte -- George Eliot and the "superfluous woman"': a subtle means of protest? -- Nomen in Theodor Storm: the opposition of conformity and otherness -- From Sleeping Beauty to career woman: the development of women's roles in Theodor Fontane -- Turgenev and the "woman question": layering barriers -- Tolstoy, women and barriers: inflexible closedness |
| Summary |
Kathryn Ambrose offers a new approach to the Woman Question in mid- to late-nineteenth-century English, German and Russian literature. Using a methodological framework based on feminist theory and post-structuralism, she provides a re-vision of canonical texts (such as Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, Effi Briest, Fathers and Children and Anna Karenina) alongside lesser-known works by Emily and Charlotte Bronte¿, George Eliot, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Ivan Turgenev and Leo Tolstoy. Her exploration of the semiotics of barriers ¿́¿ as opposed to the established approach of the semiotics of space ¿́¿ makes for a rewarding reading of this period of literature and establishes new cross-cultural and literary connections between the three countries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-232) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Feminism in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Feminist theory.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Feminism in literature
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Feminist theory
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Women in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9004304843 |
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9789004304840 |
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