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The Stone and the Scorpion - The Female Subject of Desire in the Novels of Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy (Hardcover, New)
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The Stone and the Scorpion - The Female Subject of Desire in the Novels of Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy (Hardcover, New)
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Sexuality and erotic desire were important components of Victorian
culture, and the novels of the Victorian era reflect the sexual
attitudes of the authors and culture of that period. The Stone and
the Scorpion focuses on the interplay of erotics in the novels of
Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. Using several
extra-literary critical approaches, particularly feminist
gender-relations theory, this book determines degrees of female
subjectivity and desire in these novels. At the heart of the study
is the belief that the disruption of conventional male-female
dualities is essential to the recasting of the erotic relationship
in contemporary culture. Mitchell re-reads several well-read novels
by three major Victorian authors in order to analyze their symbolic
construction of gender and sexuality. As a group, the novels she
discusses are a recognized part of the established literary canon;
they span the latter half of the 19th century; and they embody
various forms of erotic desire. The book considers to what extent
the novelists dare to invest their female characters with erotic
subjectivity, and to what degree this investment changed over time.
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