Scenes of Reading : Transforming Romance in Bronte, Eliot, and Woolf

by Nancy Cervetti

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

Book Series Writing About Women Feminist Literary Studies

ISBN-10 0820438057

ISBN-13 9780820438054

Publisher Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Imprint Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 1st, 1998

Print length 173 Pages

Weight 436 grams

Dimensions 23.80 x 15.90 x 1.60 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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This book combines biography, literature, and cultural and feminist theory to examine the radical critiques of patriarchy performed by Charlotte Brontë, 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.

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