Sexualizing power in naturalism Theodore Dreiser and Frederick Philip Grove / Irene Gammel

Author(s): Gammel, Irene, 1959-
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Subjects: Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945--Criticism and interpretation
Grove, Frederick Philip, 1879-1948--Criticism and interpretation
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Power in literature
Naturalism in literature
Women in literature
Sex in literature
Formats: Electronic Resource, Remote
Material Type: Books
Language: English
Audience: Unspecified
Published: Calgary : University of Calgary Press, c1994
LC Classification: P, PS
Table of Contents: Acknowledgements
Introduction 1
I. Naturalism and Foucault
1. Naturalism's History of Sexuality 15
2. "Liberating" Sexuality 27
3. Power and the Docile Body 41
II. Dreiser, Naturalism and the New Woman
4. Sister Carrie: Sexualizing the Docile Body 59
5. Female Sexuality and the Naturalist Crisis: "Emanuela" 83
III. Deconstructing the Naturalist Prostitute
6. Fanny Essler: A Sexual Picaresque 103
7. Fanny's Sexual Confession 119
8. Fanny Essler in (A) Search for America 133
IV. Eroticizing Bourgeois Power
9. The Male Body of Power: The Titan 153
10. Naturalism's Specula(riza)tion: The "Genius" 173
V. Grove's Sexualization of Patriarchal Power
11. Sovereign Power, Bio-Power and the "Inevitable Form" in The Master of the Mill 187
12. The Father's Seduction and the Daughter's Rebellion 207
Bibliography 241
Index 257
Alternate Titles: Issued in other form: Original (DLC) 95171967 (OCoLC)31647803
Additional Authors: NetLibrary, Inc
Notes: Invalid LCCN: 95171967
ISBN: 0585147264 (electronic bk.) :$24.95
ISBN: 1895176395
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-255) and index
Reproduction notes: Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2000. Available via the World Wide Web. Available in multiple electronic file formats. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries
Physical Description: x, 262 p. ; 23 cm
OCLC Number: 44958808
ISBN/ISSN: 0585147264
1895176395

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