Public and private : gender, class, and the British novel (1764-1878)

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Public and private : gender, class, and the British novel (1764-1878)

Patricia McKee

University of Minnesota Press, c1997

  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-237) and index

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ISBN 9780816629343

内容説明

Examining the emergent and fluctuating relationship between the public and private social spheres of the late 18th and 19th centuries, this text assesses novels such as Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and Jane Austen's "Emma" through the lens of the social theories of Habermas and Foucault. The work explores the themes of production and consumption as they relate to gender and class throughout the works of many of the most influential novels of the age, including: Smollett's "Humphrey Clinker"; Walpole's "The castle of Otranto"; "Emma"; "Frankenstein"; Trollope's "Barchester Towers", Dickens's "Little Dorrit" and "The Old Curiosity Shop", Mrs Henry Wood's "East Lynne", and Thomas Hardy's "Return of the Native". The book analyzes portrayals of a society where abstract idealism belonged to knowledgeable, productive men and the realm of ignorance was left to emotional, consuming women and the uneducated. It traces the various ways British literature of the 18th and 19th centuries worked to reform this social experience. Topics include: Dickens's attack on the bureaucratic use of knowledge to maintain a status quo; the function of anti-progressive depictions of knowledge in Trollope, Shelley and Hardy; and Austen's characterization of the protagonist Emma as an exception in a society that denied women's productive use of knowledge. Offering a challenge to theorists who have charted a linear division of public and private experience, the study highlights the unexpected configurations of the emergence of the public and private spheres and the effect of knowledge distribution across class and gender lines.

目次

  • Models of stability - production and consumption in "Humphry Clinker" and "The Castle of Otranto"
  • productions of knowledge - "Emma" and "Frankenstein"
  • the emptied subject of public knowledge - the old curiosity shop
  • public knowledge, common knowledge and classifications of will - "Barchester Towers" and "Little Dorrit"
  • gender as order in public and in private - "East Lynne"
  • naturalizing class and gender distinctions - "The Return of the Native".
巻冊次

: pbk. ISBN 9780816629350

内容説明

Public and Private was first published in 1997. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This groundbreaking work examines the emergent and fluctuating relationship between the public and private social spheres of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By assessing novels such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Jane Austen's Emma through the lens of the social theories of Jurgen Habermas and Michel Foucault, Patricia McKee presents a fresh and highly original contribution to literary studies. McKee explores the themes of production and consumption as they relate to gender and class throughout the works of many of the most influential novels of the age including Tobias Smollett's Humphry Clinker, Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Emma, Frankenstein, Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers, Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit and The Old Curiosity Shop, Mrs. Henry Wood's East Lynne, and Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native. McKee analyzes portrayals of a society in which abstract idealism belonged to knowledgeable, productive men and the realm of ignorance was left to emotional, consuming women and the uneducated. She traces the various ways British literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries worked to reform this social experience. Topics include Dickens's attack on the bureaucratic use of knowledge to maintain the status quo; the function of antiprogressive depictions of knowledge in Trollope, Shelley, and Hardy; and Austen's characterization of the protagonist Emma as an exception in a society that denied women's productive use of knowledge. Offering a sharp challenge to theorists who have charted a linear division of public and private experience, McKee highlights the unexpected configurations of the emergence of the public and private spheres and the effect of knowledge distribution across class and gender lines. Patricia McKee is professor of English at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Heroic Commitment in Richardson, Eliot, and James (1986).

目次

  • Models of stability - production and consumption in "Humphry Clinker" and "The Castle of Otranto"
  • productions of knowledge - "Emma" and "Frankenstein"
  • the emptied subject of public knowledge - the old curiosity shop
  • public knowledge, common knowledge and classifications of will - "Barchester Towers" and "Little Dorrit"
  • gender as order in public and in private - "East Lynne"
  • naturalizing class and gender distinctions - the return of the native.

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