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Sisters in Time - Imagining Gender in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (Hardcover)
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Sisters in Time - Imagining Gender in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (Hardcover)
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Asking why the 19th-century British novel features heroines, and
how and why it features "feminine heroism," Susan Morgan traces the
relationship between fictional depictions of gender and Victorian
ideas of history and progress. Morgan approaches gender in selected
19th-century British novels as an imaginative category, accessible
to authors and characters of either sex. Arguing that conventional
definitions of heroism offer a fixed and history-denying
perspective on life, the book traces a literary tradition that
represents social progress as a process of feminization. The
capacities for flexibility, mercy, and self-doubt, conventionally
devalued as feminine, can make it possible for characters to enter
history. She shows that Austen and Scott offer revolutionary
definitions of feminine heroism, and the tradition is elaborated
and transformed by Gaskell, Eliot, Meredith, and James (partly
through one of his last "heroines," the aging hero of The
Ambassadors.) Throughout the study, Morgan considers how gender
functions both in individual novels and more extensively as a means
of tracing larger patterns and interests, especially those
concerned with the redemptive possibilities of a temporal and
historical perspective.
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