Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and CultureSusan Bernstein examines the gendered power relationships embedded in confessional literature of the Victorian period. Exploring this dynamic in Charlotte Bronta's Villette, Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, George Eliot's Da |
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Contents
theorizing Confession Gendering Confession | 15 |
Histories and Fictions of Victorian Confession AntiCatholic Rhetoric and Villette | 41 |
That Narrow Boundry Line Figures of Female Degeneracy and Lady Audleys Secret | 73 |
The Bonds and Bondage of Gender and Race Paternal Metaphors of Confession in Daniel Deronda | 105 |
The UnIntact State Tess of the dUrbervilles and Confessions of Sexual and Textual Violence | 143 |
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| Title | Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and Culture Political Science; 62 |
| Author | Susan David Bernstein |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0807846244, 9780807846247 |
| Length | 206 pages |
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