The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women's Fiction

by Barbara Claire Freeman

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This text provides an insight into the modes and devices employed in the creation of women's fiction since the 18th century. It argues that traditional theorizations of the sublime depend upon unexamined assumptions about femininity and sexual difference, and that the sublime could not exist without misogynistic constructions of the feminine. Taking this as her starting point, Freeman suggests that the other sublime that comes into view from this...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0520088638

ISBN13:9780520088634

Release Date:January 1995

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:202 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

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Contemporary Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences Women Writers Women's Studies

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