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Elizabeth Barrett Browning : the origins of a new poetry
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ISBN: 0226520382 Year: 1989 Publisher: Chicago London University of Chicago Press

The ends of history : Victorians and "the woman question"
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ISBN: 0415009359 Year: 1990 Publisher: London New York Routledge


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'Power to observe' : Irish women novelists in Britain, 1890 - 1916
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ISBN: 9783034318372 3034318375 Year: 2015 Volume: 62 Publisher: Bern Lang


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Gilbert & Gubar's The madwoman in the attic after thirty years
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ISBN: 0826272096 9780826219275 9780826272096 9780826218698 0826218695 0826219276 Year: 2009 Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press,


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Sex and subterfuge : women writers to 1850
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ISBN: 0044406568 Year: 1990 Publisher: London Sydney Wellington Pandora


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Ambitious heights : writing, friendship, love : the Jewsbury sisters, Felicia Hemans, and Jane Welsh Carlyle
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ISBN: 0415000521 Year: 1990 Publisher: London New York Routledge

Other Women
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ISBN: 1400861659 9781400861651 0691068658 0691014930 9780691068657 9780691014937 0691608512 9780691608518 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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In this ambitious work Anita Levy exposes certain forms of middle-class power that have been taken for granted as "common sense" and "laws of nature." Joining an emergent tradition of cultural historians who draw on Gramsci and Foucault, she shows how middle-class hegemony in the nineteenth century depended on notions of gender to legitimize a culture-specific and class-specific definition of the right and wrong ways of being human. The author examines not only domestic fiction, particularly Emily Bront's Wuthering Heights, but also nineteenth-century works of the human sciences, including sociological tracts, anthropological treatises, medical texts, and psychological studies. She finds that British intellectuals of the period produced gendered standards of behavior that did not so much subordinate women to men as they authorized the social class whose women met norms of "appropriate" behavior: this class was considered to be peculiarly fit to care for other social and cultural groups whose women were "improperly" gendered. When Levy reads fiction against the social sciences, she demonstrates that the history of fiction cannot be understood apart from the history of the human sciences. Both fiction and science share common narrative strategies for representing the "essential" female and "other women"--the prostitute, the "primitive," and the madwoman. Only fiction, however, represented these strategies in an idiom of everyday life that verified "theory" and "science."Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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