Deborah Denenholz Morse

The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope's Novels

New Readings for the Twenty-First Century
Herausgeber: Markwick, Margaret

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Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together established critics and exciting new voices, The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope's Novels offers original readings of Trollope that recognize and repay his importance as source material for scholars working in diverse fields of literary and cultural studies. As the editors observe in their provocative introduction, Trollope more than any of his contemporaries is studied by scholars from disciplines outside literary studies. The contributors here draw together work from economics, colonialism and ethnicity, gender studies, new historicism, liberalism, legal studies, and politics that convincingly argues for the eminence of Trollope's writings as a vehicle for the theoretical explorations of Victorian culture that currently predominate. The essays variously examine imperial and postcolonial themes in the context of economic, cultural, aesthetic, and demographic influences; show how gender-sensitive readings expose Trollope's critique of capitalism's influence; address Trollope and sexuality in the context of queer studies, the law, archetypal constructions, and classical feminism; and offer new approaches to narrative theory through examination of Victorian understandings of male and female psychology. Regenia Gagnier's concluding chapter revisits the collection's critical strands and reflects on the implications for future studies of Trollope.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9780754663898
• ISBN-10: 0754663892
• Artikelnr.: 31304742

Autorenporträt

Margaret Markwick is an Honorary Fellow in the School of English at the University of Exeter, UK; Deborah Denenholz Morse is Professor of English at the College of William and Mary, USA; and Regenia Gagnier is Professor of English, director of the Centre for Victorian Studies, Director of the Migrations Research Network, and Senior Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis) at the University of Exeter, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Margaret Markwick and Deborah Denenholz Morse; Part1 Sex
Power and Subversion: (A)genda trouble and the Lot complex: older men-younger women relationships in Trollope
Robert M. Polhemus; He Knew He was Right: the sensational tyranny of the sexual contract and the problem of liberal progress
Kathy Alexis Psomiades; Bastards to the time: legitimacy as legal fiction in Trollope's novels of the 1870s
Jenny Bourne Taylor; Out of the closet: homoerotics in Trollope's novels
Margaret Markwick. Part 2 Imperial Gender: 'Some girls who come from the tropics': gender
race
and imperialism in Anthony Trollope's He Knew He Was Right
Deborah Denenholz Morse; Anthony Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds and 'the great Parliamentary bore'
Lauren M.E. Goodlad; 'Two identities': gender
ethnicity and Phineas Finn
Mary Jean Corbett; The rough and the beautiful in 'Catherine Carmichael': class and gender in Trollope's colonial aesthetic
Helen Lucy Blythe. Part 3 Genderized Economics: Mister Trollope
Lady Credit and The Way We Live Now
Nathan K. Hensley; A woman of money: Miss Dunstable
Thomas Holloway
and Victorian commercial wealth
Elsie B. Michie; Otherwise occupied: masculine widows in Trollope's novels
Christopher S. Noble. Part 4 The Gender of Narrative Construction: Trollope at fuller length: Lord Silverbridge and the manuscript of The Duke's Children
Steven Amarnick'
; 'Depth of portraiture': what should distinguish a Victorian man from a Victorian woman?
David Skilton; The weight of religion and history: women dying of virtue in Trollope's later short fiction
Anca Vlasopolos; Conclusion: Gender
liberalism and resentment
Regenia Gagnier; Bibliography; Index.