Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and Culture

by Susan David Bernstein

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Susan 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 Daniel Deronda , and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles , she argues that although women's disclosures to male confessors repeatedly depict wrongdoing committed against them, they themselves are viewed as the...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0807846244

ISBN13:9780807846247

Release Date:March 1997

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.79 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Victorian

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