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Literary Feminisms provides a map for charting the difficult waters
that feminist theories have created in literary studies. Ruth
Robbins shows the reasons for the development of feminist literary
critiques, explains the difficulties and exposes some of feminism's
blindspots. A wide range of theorists is discussed, ranging from
Wollstonecraft to Kristeva, showing the ways in which materialist,
psychoanalytic and literary accounts of feminist thinking
creatively intersect. Through a series of exemplary readings, of
texts such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Yellow Wallpaper,
she also points out how the student reader can begin to make her or
his own feminist criticism, and can learn to engage with both the
politics and poetics of the literature.
Key Features: * Study methods * Introduction to the text *
Summaries with critical notes * Themes and techniques * Textual
analysis of key passages * Author biography * Historical and
literary background * Modern and historical critical approaches *
Chronology * Glossary of literary terms
Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion provides
readers with close textual analyses regarding the role of
subversive acts or tendencies in Victorian literature. By drawing
clear cultural contexts for the works under review-including such
canonical texts as Dracula, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, and stories
featuring Sherlock Holmes-the critics in this anthology offer
groundbreaking studies of subversion as a literary motif. For some
late nineteenth-century British novelists, subversion was a central
aspect of their writerly existence. Although-or perhaps
because-most Victorian authors composed their works for a general
and mixed audience, many writers employed strategies designed to
subvert genteel expectations. In addition to using coded and
oblique subject matter, such figures also hid their transgressive
material "in plain sight." While some writers sought to critique,
and even destabilize, their society, others juxtaposed subversive
themes and aesthetics negatively with communal norms in hopes of
quashing progressive agendas.
Oscar Wilde's reputation has shifted dramatically during the
twentieth century from outcast in the wake of his trials for
homosexual offences, to martyr to the gay cause in the 1980s and
90s, to important figure in the history of writing in English. Ruth
Robbins introduces Wilde through a focus on his manipulations of
genre and sets Wilde's life and work in its literary and cultural
context, including the history of Victorian drama; the contexts of
criticism in the period; poetry as post-romantic and pre-modernist
mode of expression; the uses and subversions of fictional forms in
his work; and his subversion of the autobiographical mode in his
prison letter De Profundis. This comprehensive and readable
introduction offers readers and students a lively and informative
guide to Wilde's significance in the context of his own time and
his extensive afterlife in literature, criticism and popular
culture.
"The short story remains a crucial if neglected - part of British
literary heritage. This accessible and up-to-date critical overview
maps out the main strands and figures that shaped the British short
story and novella from the 1850s to the present. It offers new
readings of both classic and forgotten texts in a clear,
jargon-free way"--Provided by publisher.
Who do you think you are? In Subjectivity, Ruth Robbins explores
some of the responses to this fundamental question. In readings of
a number of autobiographical texts from the last three centuries,
Robbins offers an approachable account of formations of the self
which demonstrates that both psychology and material conditions -
often in tension with one another - are the building blocks of
modern notions of selfhood. Key texts studied include: - William
Wordsworth's Prelude - Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an
English Opium Eater - James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man - Oscar Wilde's De Profundis - Jung Chang's Wild Swans
Robbins also argues that our subjectivity, far from being the
secure possession of the individual, is potentially fragile and
contingent. She shows that the versions of subjectivity authorized
by the dominant culture are full of gaps and blindspots that undo
any notion of universal human nature: subjectivity is culturally
and historically specific - we are, in part, what the culture in
which we live permits us to be. Concise and easy-to-follow, this
introduction to the concept of subjectivity, and the theories
surrounding it, shows that, in spite of the insecurity of selfhood,
there is still much to be gained from the textual encounter with
other selves. It is essential reading for all those studying
'autobiography' or 'autobiographical writing'.
The Victorian period was one of enormous cultural diversity with
places for figures as different as Alfred Tennyson and Oscar Wilde.
Victorian Identities simultaneously celebrates that diversity
whilst drawing out the connections between disparate voices. With
essays on the 'Greats' of the period - Dickens, Tennyson, George
Eliot, Wilkie Collins and Wilde - as well as on the less well-known
sensation writer, Rhoda Broughton, and on the formation of
children's voices in Victorian literature - the collection rejects
narrow definitions of the period and its values, and exposes its
texts to readings informed by contemporary literary theory.
Applying: to Derrida: What might such an extraordinary phrase mean?
How are we to read its many folds, its strange, enigmatic grammar?
Who does the applying? To whom? In what cases does Derrida apply,
and why should scholars apply (themselves) to Jacques Derrida,
today, more than ever? In order to find possible answers to such
questions, all prospective applicants should apply within to this
extraordinary collection of essays, which provides some of the most
innovative insights and radical departures in the field of
Derridean studies. Striking out from a number of new headings and
in a number of new directions each of the essays in this collection
pushes at the borders of their topics, disciplines and ways of
thinking, providing innovative and inventive insights into the work
- and application - of Jacques Derrida on a diverse range of themes
including Irish identity, communication, ethics, love,
tele-technology, Victorian studies, the limits of philosophy,
translation, otherness and literature, demonstrating that, today,
despite repeated accusations over recent years that the work of
Derrida has become passe, there is more vitality and spirit in
engaging with the writings of Derri
Applying: to Derrida: What might such an extraordinary phrase mean?
How are we to read its many folds, its strange, enigmatic grammar?
Who does the applying? To whom? In what cases does Derrida apply,
and why should scholars apply (themselves) to Jacques Derrida,
today, more than ever? In order to find possible answers to such
questions, all prospective applicants should apply within to this
extraordinary collection of essays, which provides some of the most
innovative insights and radical departures in the field of
Derridean studies. Striking out from a number of new headings and
in a number of new directions each of the essays in this collection
pushes at the borders of their topics, disciplines and ways of
thinking, providing innovative and inventive insights into the work
- and application - of Jacques Derrida on a diverse range of themes
including Irish identity, communication, ethics, love,
tele-technology, Victorian studies, the limits of philosophy,
translation, otherness and literature, demonstrating that, today,
despite repeated accusations over recent years that the work of
Derrida has become passe, there is more vitality and spirit in
engaging with the writings of Derri
Medical Advice for Women is a new five-volume collection from
Routledge and Edition Synapse covering professional, scientific,
and medical opinion, in addition to the popular guides aimed at the
female reader, between the years 1830-1915. Medical literature from
this period provides a fascinating insight into the interrelations
between social proscriptions, often validated by appeals to
religious authority, and medical prescriptions. The narrative
contained within this largely chronological collection is not
necessarily a progressive one from quackery to medical and
scientific enlightenment; the situation was more nuanced than
selective quotation from sensational examples has implied in the
past. This collection, edited and with a new introduction by Ruth
Robbins, illuminates the complexity and shifting grounds of opinion
in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by bringing back
into print a broad selection of texts offering medical advice to
women, and will be of interest to all scholars and students working
in gender and cultural studies, and particularly to historians and
sociologists of medicine.
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The Job (Paperback)
Sinclair Lewis; Introduction by James M. Hutchisson; Foreword by Ruth Robbins
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Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for
literature, and a writer lauded both for his craft and his
principles, wrote The Job as a statement of female empowerment, and
self-determination over societal expectation. Written in the early
years of the 1900s Lewis' central character, highly unusual for the
era, is a woman, Una Golden, who gains work in an exclusively male
world of commercial real estate. Golden struggles for the
recognition of her male peers while balancing romantic and work
life; she marries, divorces, continues to work hard and finally
emerges triumphant on her own terms. Flame Tree 451 presents a new
series, The Foundations of Feminist Fiction. The early 1900s saw a
quiet revolution in literature dominated by male adventure heroes.
Both men and women moved beyond the norms of the male gaze to write
from a different gender perspective, sometimes with female
protagonists, but also expressing the universal freedom to write on
any subject whatsoever. Each book features a brand new biography
and a new glossary of Literary, Gothic and Victorian terms.
This is a short, readable introduction to Oscar Wilde's life, work
and afterlife. Oscar Wilde's reputation has shifted dramatically
during the twentieth century from outcast in the wake of his trials
for homosexual offences, to martyr to the gay cause in the 1980s
and 90s, to important figure in the history of writing in English.
Ruth Robbins introduces Wilde through a focus on his manipulations
of genre and sets Wilde's life and work in its literary and
cultural context, including the history of Victorian drama; the
contexts of criticism in the period; poetry as post-romantic and
pre-modernist mode of expression; the uses and subversions of
fictional forms in his work; and his subversion of the
autobiographical mode in his prison letter "De Profundis". This
comprehensive and readable introduction offers readers and students
a lively and informative guide to Wilde's significance in the
context of his own time and his extensive afterlife in literature,
criticism and popular culture. It offers concise, accessible
introductions to major writers focusing equally on their life and
works. Written in a lively style to appeal to both students and
readers, books in the series are ideal guides to authors and their
writing.
The Russian folktale about an old woman's endless search for the Christ child.
This title provides clear and useful discussions of the main areas
of literary, critical and cultural theory. It includes Key Concepts
in Literary Theory presents the student of literary and critical
studies with a broad range of accessible, precise and authoritative
definitions of the most significant terms and concepts currently
used in psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, Marxist, feminist, and
postcolonial literary studies. It includes more than 100 additional
terms and concepts defined. It provides newly defined terms that
include keywords from the social sciences, cultural studies and
psychoanalysis and the addition of a broader selection of classical
rhetorical terms. It is an expanded chronology, with additional
entries and a broader historical and cultural range. It offers
expanded bibliographies including key texts by major critics.
Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion provides
readers with close textual analyses regarding the role of
subversive acts or tendencies in Victorian literature. By drawing
clear cultural contexts for the works under review-including such
canonical texts as Dracula, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, and stories
featuring Sherlock Holmes-the critics in this anthology offer
groundbreaking studies of subversion as a literary motif. For some
late nineteenth-century British novelists, subversion was a central
aspect of their writerly existence. Although-or perhaps
because-most Victorian authors composed their works for a general
and mixed audience, many writers employed strategies designed to
subvert genteel expectations. In addition to using coded and
oblique subject matter, such figures also hid their transgressive
material "in plain sight." While some writers sought to critique,
and even destabilize, their society, others juxtaposed subversive
themes and aesthetics negatively with communal norms in hopes of
quashing progressive agendas.
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