Outside the pale : cultural exclusion, gender difference, and the Victorian woman writer / Elsie B. Michie
| Author(s): | Michie, Elsie B. (Elsie Browning), 1948- |
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| Subjects: | Women authors, English--19th century--Social conditions English literature--Women authors--History and criticism Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century English literature--19th century--History and criticism Authorship--Sex differences |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1993 |
| Series: | Reading women writing Reading women writing |
| LC Classification: | P, PR |
| Table of Contents: | Acknowledgments Introduction: "Excluded from Discourse and Imprisoned within It": The Position of the Nineteenth-Century Woman Writer 1 1. "Matters That Appertain to the Imagination": Accounting for Production in Frankenstein 20 2. "The Yahoo, Not the Demon": Heathcliff, Rochester, and the Simianization of the Irish 46 3. "My Story as My Own Property": Gaskell, Dickens, and the Rhetoric of Prostitution 79 4. "Those That Will Not Work": Prostitutes, Property, Gaskell, and Dickens 113 5. "High Art and Science Always Require the Whole Man": Culture and Menstruation in Middlemarch 142 Conclusion: Products, Simians, Prostitutes, and Menstruating Women: What Do They Have in Common? 172 Works Cited 177 Index 185 |
| Notes: | LCCN: 93002458 ISBN: 0801428319 ISBN: 080148085X (pbk.) Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 190 p. ; 24 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 28292458 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0801428319 080148085X |