Women and Romance: The Consolations of Gender in the English NovelAccording to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues in feminist debate, in particular the relations of feminist to the poststructuralist theories of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault. In highlighting questions of gender in this way, Women and Romance contributes to a major debate between skeptical and materialist points of view among poststructuralist critics. |
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... The Romantic Impulse in Victorian Fiction ( 1980 ) , 13 . 50Unsigned review of Scenes of Clerical Life , from the Atlantic Monthly , in Carroll , George Eliot : The Critical Heritage , 66 . 51 " George Henry Lewes to John Blackwood ...
... The Romantic Impulse in Victorian Fiction ( 1980 ) , 13 . 50Unsigned review of Scenes of Clerical Life , from the Atlantic Monthly , in Carroll , George Eliot : The Critical Heritage , 66 . 51 " George Henry Lewes to John Blackwood ...
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... The Romantic Impulse in Victorian Fiction . Cambridge , Mass .: Harvard University Press , 1980 . Stone , Jennifer . " The Horrors of Power : A Critique of ' Kristeva . ' ” In The Politics of Theory : Proceedings of the 1982 Essex ...
... The Romantic Impulse in Victorian Fiction . Cambridge , Mass .: Harvard University Press , 1980 . Stone , Jennifer . " The Horrors of Power : A Critique of ' Kristeva . ' ” In The Politics of Theory : Proceedings of the 1982 Essex ...
Contents
The Romance of History or Ontogeny Recapitulates | 1 |
Phylogeny Sometimes | 12 |
Charlotte Lennoxs | 62 |
Copyright | |
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