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Desire and Domestic Fiction - A Political History of the Novel (Paperback, New edition)
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Desire and Domestic Fiction - A Political History of the Novel (Paperback, New edition)
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Desire and Domestic Fiction argues that far from being removed from
historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were
themselves agents of the rise of the middle class. Drawing on texts
that range from 18th-century female conduct books and contract
theory to modern psychoanalytic case histories and theories of
reading, Armstrong shows that the emergence of a particular form of
female subjectivity capable of reigning over the household paved
the way for the establishment of institutions which today are
accepted centers of political power. Neither passive subjects nor
embattled rebels, the middle-class women who were authors and
subjects of the major tradition of British fiction were among the
forgers of a new form of power that worked in, and through, their
writing to replace prevailing notions of "identity" with a
gender-determined subjectivity. Examining the works of such
novelists as Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and the Brontes, she
reveals the ways in which these authors rewrite the domestic
practices and sexual relations of the past to create the historical
context through which modern institutional power would seem not
only natural but also humane, and therefore to be desired."
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