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Author:

Newman, Beth, 1955-

Title:

Subjects on display : psychoanalysis, social expectation, and Victorian femininity / Beth Newman.

Publisher:

Ohio University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

x, 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature--Great Britain.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Psychological fiction, English--History and criticism.
Assertiveness (Psychology) in literature.
Expectation (Psychology) in literature.
Bashfulness in literature.
Femininity in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Assertiveness in women.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-181) and index.

Contents:

Display, invisibility, and the Victorian feminine ideal -- The uses of obscurity : Jane Eyre, Lucy Snowe, and the disposition against display -- Display and the body from David Copperfield to Bleak House -- George Eliots̕ exhibitionist desire -- Getting fixed : The turn of the screw and the contradictions of genteel femininity -- The subject of display in theory and history.

ISBN:

9780821415481 (alk. paper)
0821415484 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53937936

LCCN:

2003027085

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)