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Scenes of Reading

Scenes of Reading Transforming Romance in Brontë, Eliot, and Woolf - Writing About Women

Hardback (01 Jun 1998)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This book combines biography, literature, and cultural and feminist theory to examine the radical critiques of patriarchy performed by Charlotte Bronte, 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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780820438054
Publisher: Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
Imprint: P. Lang
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.809352042
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 173
Weight: 436g
Height: 238mm
Width: 159mm
Spine width: 16mm
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