Practising Femininity : Domestic Realism and the Performance of Gender in Early Canadian Fiction /

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Femininity in colonial societies is a particularly contested element of the sex/gender system; while it draws on a conservative belief in universal and continuous values, it is undermined by the liberal rhetoric of freedom characteristic of the New World. Practising Femininity analyses the ways in w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dean, Misao (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Temas:
Canadian fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Domestic fiction > History and criticism.
Femininity in literature.
Women and literature > Canada.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Practising Femininity
  • 1. The Female Emigrant's Guide as the Mending Basket of Domestic Ideology
  • 2. The Broken Mirror of Domestic Ideology: Femininity as Textual Practice in Susanna Moodie's Autobiographical Works
  • 3. Translated by Desire: Romance and Politics in Rosanna Leprohon 's Antoinette de Mirecourt
  • 4. Explain Yourself: New Woman Fiction in Canada
  • 5. Voicing the Voiceless: The Practice of 'Self-expression' in Nellie McClung's Fiction and Her Autobiography
  • 6. Femininity and the Real in As for Me and My House
  • Conclusion: Citing and Reciting
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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