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An ethic of innocence : pragmatism, modernity, and women's choice not to know /
"In An Ethic of Innocence, author Kristen Renzi provides a novel interpretative framework for reconsidering the epistemic claims of women in transatlantic literature from the late nineteenth century to the present. It is the first scholarly study of the ways in which gendered choices "not...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the problem of modern female innocence
- Part One: Negotiated living. A pragmatist's dilemma: the collusion between myth and reality in the Hull-House Devil Baby tale
- Coming of age via critical complaint: reading women's choices not to know in Realist Bildungsroman
- A failure of sympathy or of narrative?: naturalism's jaded women and the narrative cycle of domestic violence
- The legacy of naturalism, a cycle of leaving: reading agency in the passive, empty woman
- Part Two: Pragmatic fantasies. Are women people?: discourses of (non) personhood in suffrage poetry and protest
- Making women, making humans: fantasies and melancholic mourning in modern sex changes and sex losses
- Allowing innocence?: belief, knowledge, and the modern community.