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Hardcover Subjects on Display: Psychoanalysis, Social Expectation, and Victorian Femininity Book

ISBN: 0821415484

ISBN13: 9780821415481

Subjects on Display: Psychoanalysis, Social Expectation, and Victorian Femininity

Subjects on Display explores a recurrent figure at the heart of many nineteenth-century English novels: the retiring, self-effacing woman who is conspicuous for her inconspicuousness. Beth Newman draws upon both psychoanalytic theory and recent work in social history as she argues that this paradoxical figure, who often triumphs over more dazzling, eye-catching rivals, is a response to the forces that made personal display a vexed issue...

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