Telling tales : gender and narrative form in Victorian literature and culture / Elizabeth Langland.
2002
PR878.S49 L36 2002 (Mapit)
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Title
Telling tales : gender and narrative form in Victorian literature and culture / Elizabeth Langland.
Author
Langland, Elizabeth.
ISBN
081420905X (alk. paper)
Imprint
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2002.
Language
English
Description
xxiii, 164 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PR878.S49 L36 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.809353
Summary
Publisher's description: Telling Tales offers new and original readings of novels by Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Margaret Oliphant, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It also presents new archival material on the lives and stories of working-class women in Victorian Britain. Finally, it sets forth innovative interpretations of the complex ways in which gender informs the abstract cultural narratives--like space, aesthetic value, and nationality--through which a populace comes to know and position itself. Focusing on the interrelations of form, gender, and culture in narratives of the Victorian period, Telling Tales explores the close interplay between gender as manifest in specific literary works and gender as manifest in Victorian culture. The latter does not reflect a shift away from form toward culture, but rather a steady concern of form-in-culture. Reading and analyzing Victorian novels provides an education for reading and interpreting the broader culture. The book's several chapters explore and pose answers to important questions about the impact of gender on narrative in Victorian culture: How do women writers respond to themes and narrative structures of precursor male writers? What are the very real differences that shape a newly emerging tradition of female authorship? How does gender enter into the determination of aesthetic value? How does gender enter into the national imaginaryℓthe idea of Englishness? In exploring these key concerns, Telling Tales establishes a broad terrain for future inquiries that take gender as an organizing term and principle for analysis of narratives in all periods.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-155) and index.
Series
Theory and interpretation of narrative series
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Table of Contents
Mosaic, dialogue, discourse, theft, and mimicry : Charlotte Brontë rereads William Makepeace Thackeray
Dialogue and narrative transgressions in Anne Brontë's Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Becoming a man in Thomas Hardy's Jude the obscure
Gender geographies : the lady and the country house in Wilkie Collins's Woman in white and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's secret
Private space and public women : Victorian working-class narratives
Cultural capital and the gendering of values : Victorian women writers
Nation and nationality : Queen Victoria in the developing narrative of Englishness.
Dialogue and narrative transgressions in Anne Brontë's Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Becoming a man in Thomas Hardy's Jude the obscure
Gender geographies : the lady and the country house in Wilkie Collins's Woman in white and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's secret
Private space and public women : Victorian working-class narratives
Cultural capital and the gendering of values : Victorian women writers
Nation and nationality : Queen Victoria in the developing narrative of Englishness.