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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 pa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Newman, Beth, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Display, invisibility, and the Victorian feminine ideal
  • The uses of obscurity : Jane Eyre, Lucy Snowe, and the disposition against display
  • Display and the body from David Copperfield to Bleak House
  • George Eliots̕ exhibitionist desire
  • Getting fixed : The turn of the screw and the contradictions of genteel femininity
  • The subject of display in theory and history.