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Cervetti, Nancy

 
9780820438054: Scenes of Reading: Transforming Romance in Bronte, Eliot, and Woolf

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

The Author: Nancy Cervetti has a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in nineteenth-century British literature and feminist theory. She has published widely in journals including Women's Studies and the Journal of Modern Literature, and she is Director of Women's Studies at Avila College in Kansas City, Missouri.

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