The Feminine Sublime - Gender and Excess in Women's Fiction (Paperback)

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

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 1997
First published:	April 1997
Authors:	Barbara Claire Freeman
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	205
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-20888-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	0-520-20888-9
Barcode:	9780520208889

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