Marisa Palacios Knox

Victorian Women and Wayward Reading

Crises of Identification

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how Victorian women readers strategically identified with literature to defy stereotypes and inspire their action and creativity. Engaging with nineteenth-century English literature and culture, the book engages with theories and histories of reading that appeal to literary scholars and educators.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 253
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781108791601
• ISBN-10: 1108791603
• Artikelnr.: 64769449

Autorenporträt

Marisa Palacios Knox is Assistant Professor of Literatures and Cultural Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where she is also affiliate faculty with the Gender and Women's Studies Program. She has published articles in Victorian Poetry, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Literature Compass.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Masculine identification and marital dissolution
2. Novels without heroines: sensation and elective identification
3. Character invasion and the Victorian actress 4. Antipathetic telepathy: female mediums and reading the enemy
5. 'The valley of the shadow of books': the morbidity of female detachment
6. The new crisis: can we teach identification?