Scenes of Reading

Transforming Romance in Brontë, Eliot, and Woolf

von Nancy Cervetti

176 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book combines biography, literature, and cultural and feminist theory to examine the radical critiques of patriarchy performed by Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf in Jane Eyre, Villette, The Mill on the Floss, The Voyage Out, and Orlando. The book's focus is how these novels revise the romance plot, abandoning this ancient and very political story line and creating in its place a much larger imaginary field in which female heroines as well as their readers can consider and experiment with other possibilities. Strikingly different from the swooning beauties of traditional romance, Jane Eyre, Lucy Snowe, Maggie Tulliver, Rachel Vinrace, and Orlando share a love of language and desire for intellectual expression that takes precedence over marriage and motherhood.

• Reihe: Writing About Women
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1800 bis 1900
• ISBN: 9780820438054
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.1998
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York