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Curious Subjects: Women and the Trials of Realism

Curious Subjects: Women and the Trials of Realism

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  • 出版商: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780190624002
  • 出版时间 August 2024
  • 规格: Paperback
  • 适应领域: U.K. ? 免责申明:
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    While nineteenth-century literary scholars have long been interested in women's agency in the context of their legal status as objects, Curious Subjects makes the striking and original argument that what we find at the intersection between women subjects (who choose and enter into contracts) and women objects (owned and defined by fathers, husbands, and the law) is curiosity.

    Women protagonists in the novel are always both curiosities: strange objects worthy of our interest and actors who are themselves actively curious-relentless askers of questions, even (and perhaps especially) when they are commanded to be content and passive. What kinds of curiosity are possible and desirable, and what different kinds of knowledge do they yield? What sort of subject asks questions, seeks, chooses? Can a curious woman turn her curiosity on herself? Curious Subjects takes seriously the persuasive force of the novel as a form that intervenes in our sense of what women want to know and how they can and should choose to act on that knowledge. And it shows an astonishingly wide and subtly various range of answers to these questions in the British novel, which far from simply punishing women for their curiosity, theorized it, shaped it, and reworked it to give us characters as different as Alice in Wonderland and Dorothea Brooke, Clarissa Harlowe and Louisa Gradgrind.

    Schor's study provides thought-provoking new readings of the most canonical novels of the nineteenth century- 'Hard Times', 'Bleak House', 'Vanity Fair', 'Daniel Deronda', among others-and pushes well beyond commonplace historicist accounts of British culture in the period as a monolithic ideological formation. It will interest scholars of law and literature, narratology, and feminist theory as well as literary history more generally.

  • INTRODUCTION: The Curious Princess, the Novel and the Law

    Part One: Forming the Novel
    Chapter One: The Making of the Curious Heroine: Enlightenment, Contract and the Novel
    Chapter Two: Reading for the Test, Trying the Heroine: The Curiosity Defense
    Chapter Three: Alice and the Curious Room

    Part Two: Crossing the Threshold
    Chapter Four: Was She Guilty or Not?: The Curious Heroine meets the wicked novelist
    Chapter Five: Bleak House and The Curious Secrets: "Who Copied That"
    Chapter Six: The Bluebeard of the Classroom: Bad Marriages, General Laws, and the Daughter's Curiosity
    Chapter Seven: George Eliot and the Curious Bride: Ghosts in the Daylight

    Conclusion: The Clockwork Princess, or, Justice for the Dolls

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