Outlaw fathers in Victorian and modern British literature : queering patriarchy /

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Outlaw Fathers provides an innovative reading of fatherhood and father-son relationships in a number of Victorian and modern literary texts. In addition to using an inventive psychoanalytic paradigm for redefining, or queering, the concept of patriarchy in literary studies and theory, it joins a lar...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gurfinkel, Helena (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison : Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Rowman and Littlefield, [2013]
Subjects:
English literature > History and criticism.
Fatherhood in literature.
Fathers and sons in literature.
Patriarchy in literature.
Families in literature.
Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Paternité dans la littérature.
Pères et fils dans la littérature.
Familles dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
Families in literature
Fatherhood in literature
Fathers and sons in literature
Patriarchy in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : From the law of the father to the outlaw father
  • Theoretical genealogies
  • "The intercourse between the squire and his son" : the father-son marriage plot and the creation of the English gentleman in Anthony Trollope's novels
  • Sons as lovers : the queer Künstlerroman in Samuel Butler's The way of all flesh, Henry James's "The lesson of the master," and J.R. Ackerley's My father and myself
  • "A father's place is in the kitchen, dear" : male domesticity and motherhood in E.M. Forster's "Little Imber" and Alan Hollinghurst's The spell
  • Coda : The "p-word" : queer patriarchy beyond maleness and nation.

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