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This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyzes
power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This
volume is the first to reshape Victorian studies from the
perspective of the postmodern return to history, and is variously
influenced by Marxism, sociology, anthropology, and
post-structuralist theories of language and subjectivity. It
analyzes the struggle for legitimacy and recognition in Victorian
institutions and the struggle over meanings in ideological
representation of the gendered subject in texts. Contributors cover
diverse topics, including Victorian ideologies of motherhood, the
male gaze, the cult of the male child genius in narrative painting,
the press, and Victorian women and the French Revolution,
discussing both well-known and less familiar Victorian texts.
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This volume overturns traditional definitions of narrative by
arguing that any story, whether a Bette Davis film, a jeans ad, a
Jane Austen novel of a "Cathy" comic, must be related to larger
cultural networks. The authors show how meanings and subjectivity
do not exist in isolation, but are manufactured by the narratives
our culture reads and watches every day. They call for a critical
practice that, through the fracturing of texts, can alter the
grounds of knowledge and interpretation. This study should interest
critics of narrative and culture, as well as students wanting to
extend post-Saussurean theories to popular and canonical cultures,
and to the dynamics of story-telling itself.
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Far from the Madding Crowd (Paperback)
Thomas Hardy; Edited by Suzanne B. Falck-Yi; Introduction by Linda M. Shires
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'I shall do one thing in this life - one thing for certain - that
is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.'
Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the
beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the
dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and respectable, middle-aged
Farmer Boldwood. And while their fates depend upon the choice
Bathsheba makes, she discovers the terrible consequences of an
inconstant heart. Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of
Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of
south-west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity
as a novelist. Set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural
cycle of the year, the story both upholds and questions rural
values with a startlingly modern sensibility. This new edition
retains the critical text that restores previously deleted and
revised passages. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford
World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature
from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Telling Stories overturns traditional definitions of narrative by
arguing that any story, whether a Bette Davis film, a jeans ad, a
Jane Austen novel of a 'Cathy' comic, must be related to larger
cultural networks. The authors show how meanings and subjectivity
do not exist in isolation, but are manufactured by the narratives
our culture reads and watches every day. They call for a critical
practice that, through the fracturing of texts, can alter the
grounds of knowledge and interpretation. This timely study will
interest critics of narrative and culture, as well as students
wanting to extend post-Saussurean theories to popular and canonical
cultures, and to the dynamics of story-telling itself.
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This collection of essays, both feminist and historical,
analyzes power relations between men and women in the Victorian
period. This volume is the first to reshape Victorian studies from
the perspective of the postmodern return to history, and is
variously influenced by Marxism, sociology, anthropology, and
post-structuralist theories of language and subjectivity. It
analyzes the struggle for legitimacy and recognition in Victorian
institutions and the struggle over meanings in ideological
representation of the gendered subject in texts.
Contributors cover diverse topics, including Victorian
ideologies of motherhood, the male gaze, the cult of the male child
genius in narrative painting, the press, and Victorian women and
the French Revolution, discussing both well-known and less familiar
Victorian texts.
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The Trumpet-Major (Paperback, New Ed)
Thomas Hardy; Introduction by Linda M. Shires; Notes by Linda M. Shires; Preface by Patricia Ingham
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The Trumpet-Major, set against the background of the Napoleonic wars, is one of Hardy's most fascinating stories of love and desire. Anne Garland, who lives with her widowed mother in a mill owned by Miller Loveday, has three suitors: the squire's son Festus and the miller's two sons, Robert and John. As the Wessex village prepares for possible invasion by Napoleon's fleet, Anne finds her destiny increasingly tangled up with the events of history. For Robert is a sailor while John is a soldier both with equal commitments to their country and their love for Anne. Lyrical and light-hearted in tone, yet shot through with Hardy's characteristic irony, The Trumpet-Major is one of Hardy's most underrated and unpredictable works. In her introduction to this new edition, Linda Shires brilliantly demonstrates how the novelist defies the reader's expectations by his parallel use of literary modes which call each other into question: comedy, romance and history.
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