| An Ethics of Becoming: Configurations of Feminine Subjectivity in Jane Austen Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot Contributor(s): Cho, San Jeong (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415975379 ISBN-13: 9780415975377 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2005 Annotation: In attempting to conceptualize feminine subjectivity beyond the familiar paradigm of dualism and within the parameters of ethics, this study examines the political and intellectual identity of contemporary poststructuralist feminism and its profound resonance with the nineteenth-century British female Bildungsroman. Rooted in fundamental questions about the nexus between feminist theory and feminist literature, genre and gender, subjectivity and ethics, sexuality and textuality, and mimesis and politics, this book aims specifically to configure feminine subjectivity in the horizon of becoming - always incomplete, non-identarian, performative, unknowable, and thus paradoxically unbecoming - as it disseminates in a modality of alterity in novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot. The close reading of major novels by these women writers illuminates the artistic density and ethical depth of their writing by demonstrating that these women writers rewrite the genealogy of subjectivity and invent their own Bildungsroman as a rich narrative vehicle for the feminine. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 823.809 |
| LCCN: 2005017709 |
| Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.2" W x 9.34" (0.94 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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| Publisher Description: First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |