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Curious Subjects - Women and the Trials of Realism (Hardcover)
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Curious Subjects - Women and the Trials of Realism (Hardcover)
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While nineteenth-century literary scholars have long been
interested in women's agency in the context of their legal status
as objects, Curious Subjects makes the striking and original
argument that what we find at the intersection between women
subjects (who choose and enter into contracts) and women objects
(owned and defined by fathers, husbands, and the law) is curiosity.
Women protagonists in the novel are always both curiosities:
strange objects worthy of our interest and actors who are
themselves actively curious-relentless askers of questions, even
(and perhaps especially) when they are commanded to be content and
passive. What kinds of curiosity are possible and desirable, and
what different kinds of knowledge do they yield? What sort of
subject asks questions, seeks, chooses? Can a curious woman turn
her curiosity on herself? Curious Subjects takes seriously the
persuasive force of the novel as a form that intervenes in our
sense of what women want to know and how they can and should choose
to act on that knowledge. And it shows an astonishingly wide and
subtly various range of answers to these questions in the British
novel, which far from simply punishing women for their curiosity,
theorized it, shaped it, and reworked it to give us characters as
different as Alice in Wonderland and Dorothea Brooke, Clarissa
Harlowe and Louisa Gradgrind. Schor's study provides
thought-provoking new readings of the most canonical novels of the
nineteenth century-Hard Times, Bleak House, Vanity Fair, Daniel
Deronda, among others-and pushes well beyond commonplace
historicist accounts of British culture in the period as a
monolithic ideological formation. It will interest scholars of law
and literature, narratology, and feminist theory as well as
literary history more generally.
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