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This Book Combines Biography, Literature, And Cultural And Feminist Theory To Examine The Radical Critiques Of Patriarchy Performed By Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, And Virginia Woolf In Jane Eyre, Villette, The Mill On The Floss, The Voyage Out, And Orlando. The Book's Focus Is How These Novels Revise The Romance Plot, Abandoning This Ancient And Very Political Story Line And Creating In Its Place A Much Larger Imaginary Field In Which Female Heroines As Well As Their Readers Can Consider And Experiment With Other Possibilities. Strikingly Different From The Swooning Beauties Of Traditional Romance, Jane Eyre, Lucy Snowe, Maggie Tulliver, Rachel Vinrace, And Orlando Share A Love Of Language And Desire For Intellectual Expression That Takes Precedence Over Marriage And Motherhood. Introduction: Women And The Novel -- 1. The German Connection In George Eliot -- 2. Reading Maggie Reading -- 3. Voice And Visibility In Charlotte Bronte -- 4. Lucy Snowe And The Politics Of Location -- 5. Virginia Woolf In Her Father's Library -- 6. Rachel's Voyage Out -- 7. In The Breeches, Petticoats And Pleasures Of Orlando. Nancy Cervetti. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [161]-169) And Inde

Author

Cervetti, Nancy, 1947-

Publisher

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820438054

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History