Hysterical fictions : the "woman's novel" in the twentieth century / Clare Hanson.
"The woman's novel is a term used to describe fiction which, while immensely popular among educated women readers, sits uneasily between high and low culture. Clare Hanson argues that this hybrid status reflects the ambivalent position of its authors and readers as educated women caught be...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2000.
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| Summary: | "The woman's novel is a term used to describe fiction which, while immensely popular among educated women readers, sits uneasily between high and low culture. Clare Hanson argues that this hybrid status reflects the ambivalent position of its authors and readers as educated women caught between identification with a male-gendered intellectual culture and a counter-experience of culturally derogated female embodiment. Using a variety of philosophical perspectives, she analyses the gendering of thought and culture and the complex ways in which the female body is coded as 'outside' or as preceding culture."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 191 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-187) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0312235291 9780312235291 0333638891 9780333638897 |