Sex, Politics, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

(Part of the Selected Papers from the English Institute Series)

by Ruth Bernard Yeazell

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Six critics consider what is significantly not present or at least significantly well hidden in a provocative examination of the cultural anxieties that the nineteenth-century novel manipulates and conceals.

Probing the connections between literary and sexual politics, the authors question the absence of the police from Barchester Towers and the presence of homoeroticism in "The Beast in the Jungle." They consider the Victorian's sharpened...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0801842115

ISBN13:9780801842115

Release Date:May 1991

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:200 Pages

Weight:0.64 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Africa Criticism & Theory Europe History History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Wales

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