{"product_id":"woman-and-the-demon-nina-auerbach-9780674954076","title":"Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere is a bold new vision of Victorian culture: a study of myths of womanhood that shatters the usual generalizations about the squeezed, crushed, and ego-less Victorian woman. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough copious examples drawn from literature, art, and biography, Nina Auerbach reconstructs three central paradigms: the angel\/demon, the old maid, and the fallen woman. She shows how these animate a pervasive Victorian vision of a mobile female outcast with divine and demonic powers. Fear of such disruptive, self-creating figures, Auerbach argues, produces the approved ideal of the dutiful, family-bound woman. The awe they inspire associates them with characters in literature, the only vehicles of immortality in whom most Victorians could unreservedly believe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAuerbach looks at a wonderful variety of sources: Svengali, Dracula, and Freud; poets and major and minor novelists Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, and Ruskin; lives of women, great and unknown; Anglican sisterhoods and Magdalen homes; bardolatry and the theater; Pre-Raphaelite paintings and contemporary cartoons and book illustrations. Reinterpreting a medley of fantasies, she demonstrates that female powers inspired a vivid myth central to the spirit of the age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nina Auerbach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674954076\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674954076\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/1984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.04w x 0.82d","brand":"Nina Auerbach","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925570289919,"sku":"9780674954076","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_eb5effe8-a815-4d54-97a2-af1a79c7de5e.jpg?v=1681078055","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/woman-and-the-demon-nina-auerbach-9780674954076","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}