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The Feminine Sublime - Gender and Excess in Women's Fiction (Paperback)
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This text provides an insight into the modes and devices employed
in the creation of women's fiction since the 18th century. It
argues that traditional theorizations of the sublime depend upon
unexamined assumptions about femininity and sexual difference, and
that the sublime could not exist without misogynistic constructions
of "the feminine." Taking this as her starting point, Freeman
suggests that the "other sublime" that comes into view from this
new perspective not only offers a crucial way to approach
representations of excess in women's fiction, but allows us to
envision other modes of writing the sublime. Freeman reconsiders
Longinus, Burke, Kant, Weiskel, Hertz and Derrida while also
engaging a wide range of women's fiction, including novels by
Chopin, Morrison, Rhys, Shelley and Wharton. Addressing the
coincident rise of the novel and concept of the sublime in
18th-century European culture, Freeman allies the articulation of
sublime experience with questions of agency and passion in modern
and contemporary women's fiction. Arguments that have seemed merely
to explain the sublime also functioned to evaluate, domesticate and
ultimately exclude an otherness that is almost al
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