| Description |
xxiii, 273 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268) and index. |
| Contents |
Bodies and God : post-structuralist feminists return to the fold of spiritual materialism -- Divine loss : Irigaray's erotics of a feminine fracture -- Lacking/labor -- Recollecting Charlotte Brontë -- Working for God autoerotically : approaching the bridegroom without a(r)rival in Brontë's Villette -- Recognizing George Eliot -- At home with desire : the domestication of St. Theresa in Eliot's Middlemarch. |
| Summary |
Publisher description: This work encompasses aspects of feminist theory, post-structuralist materialisms, Victorian essays, and two prominent nineteenth-century women's novels (Villette and Middlemarch) to explore desire between women as a form of what the author calls 'spiritual materialism'. By engaging specific texts by Irigaray, Brontë, and Eliot, the author explores a surprising homology that makes materialism a hidden God. That is to say, post-structuralist feminists are caught on the horns of Victorians' obsession: how to chart channels between realms commonly considered approachable and those considered finally inaccessible. |
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English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Characters -- Women.
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Characters -- Women.
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Erotic stories -- History and criticism.
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Irigaray, Luce.
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Lesbians in literature.
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Desire in literature.
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| ISBN |
0804723125: $32.50 |
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