Confessional subjects revelations of gender and power in Victorian literature and culture - Bernstein, Susan David (University of North Carolina Press, 1997)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-197) and index
Introduction: Confession and Gender: A Process of Power -- Ch. 1. Theorizing Confession, Gendering Confession -- Ch. 2. Histories and Fictions of Victorian Confession: Anti-Catholic Rhetoric and Villette -- Ch. 3. That Narrow Boundary Line: Figures of Female Degeneracy and Lady Audley's Secret -- Ch. 4. The Bonds and Bondage of Gender and Race: Paternal Metaphors of Confession in Daniel Deronda -- Ch. 5. The Un-Intact State: Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Confessions of Sexual and Textual Violence
Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900; Geschichte 1832-1902; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Roman anglais / 19e siècle / Thèmes, motifs; Rôle selon le sexe / Dans la littérature; Femmes / Dans la littérature; Roman; Geschlechterrolle; Macht; Bekenntnis; Geschlechterrolle (Motiv); Macht (Motiv); Geschichte; English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Confession in literature; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Anti-Catholicism -- England -- History -- 19th century; Power (Social sciences) in literature; Sex role in literature; Macht -- Motiv; Englisch; Geschlechterrolle -- Motiv; Großbritannien