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Synopsis

Susan Bernstein examines the gendered power relationships embedded in confessional literature of the Victorian period. Exploring this dynamic in Charlotte Brontâ's "Villette" Mary Elizabeth Braddon's "Lady Audley's Secret" George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda" and Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" she argues that although women's disclosures to male confessors repeatedly depict wrongdoing committed against them, they themselves are viewed as the transgressors. Bernstein emphasizes the secularization of confession, but she also places these narratives within the context of the anti-Catholic tract literature of the time.

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À propos de l'auteur

Susan David Bernstein is associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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9780807823132: Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and Culture

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ISBN 10 :  0807823139 ISBN 13 :  9780807823132
Editeur : The University of North Carolina..., 1997
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