The Trauma of Gender: A Feminist Theory of the English Novel by Moglen, Helene

The Trauma of Gender: A Feminist Theory of the English Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520225893)

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The Trauma of Gender: A Feminist Theory of the English Novel by Moglen, Helene

The Trauma of Gender: A Feminist Theory of the English Novel

$31.95
The Trauma of Gender: A Feminist Theory of the English Novel by Moglen, Helene

The Trauma of Gender: A Feminist Theory of the English Novel

$31.95
Format: Paperback
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Helene Moglen offers a revisionary feminist argument about the origins, cultural function, and formal structure of the English novel. While most critics and historians have associated the novel's emergence and development with the burgeoning of capitalism and the rise of the middle classes, Moglen contends that the novel princi- pally came into being in order to manage the social and psychological strains of the modern sex-gender system. Rejecting the familiar claim that realism represents the novel's dominant tradition, she shows that, from its inception in the eighteenth century, the English novel has contained both realistic and fantastic narratives, which compete for primacy within individual texts.

Author: Helene Moglen
ISBN-10: 0520225899
ISBN-13: 9780520225893
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2001
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2001 pg. 1962
By Helene Moglen
By Helene Moglen
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Helene Moglen is Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among her publications are The Philosophical Irony of Laurence Sterne (1975), Charlotte Brontë The Self Conceived (1976), and Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism (California, 1997), which she coedited with Elizabeth Abel and Barbara Christian.

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