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George Eliot and Herbert Spencer : feminism, evolutionism, and the reconstruction of gender
| 責任表示 | Nancy L. Paxton |
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| データ種別 | 図書 |
| 出版情報 | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , c1991 |
| 本文言語 | 英語 |
| 大きさ | x, 280 p. ; 25 cm |
| 概要 | This analysis of the writings of two major Victorian intellectuals examines the crucial place of gender in the larger Victorian debate about nature, religion, and evolutionary theory. Demonstrating th... primacy of Herbert Spencer's influence on George Eliot's thought, Nancy Paxton discloses the continuous dialogue between this profoundly learned novelist and one of the most formidable and influential scientific authorities of her time. Using rarely cited first editions of Spencer's published works, Paxton reveals that Eliot and Spencer initially agreed in supporting several of the goals of early Victorian feminism when they met in 1851. Paxton surveys all of Spencer's writing to show when and why he repudiated his early feminism and demonstrates Eliot's determined resistance to the most conservative tendencies of evolutionary theory in her representation of female sexuality, motherhood, feminist ambition, and desire. In comparing Eliot's and Spencer's evolutionary reconstruction of gender, the book draws on a wide variety of biographical, literary, and critical texts and on interdisciplinary scholarship about the relation between scientific and literary discourse in the nineteenth century. By thus reassessing Eliot's contribution to feminist thought, it presents a revolutionary reading of her novels which is informed by contemporary feminist criticism and the new historicism. This is an important book because of the questions it raises, the issues it covers, and the illumination it brings to Eliot and Spencer and to crucial problems in the nineteenth century: Paxton looks at the ways scientific data get turned into arguments about the nature of women in society, about women and education, about women and sexuality. This work shows how truly current Eliot's novels are, no matter what their setting.--Barry Qualls, Rutgers University 続きを見る |
所蔵情報
| 状態 | 巻次 | 所蔵場所 | 請求記号 | 刷年 | 文庫名称 | 資料番号 | コメント | 予約・取寄 | 複写申込 | 自動書庫 |
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中央図 1B_13‐26 [文/英文] | 英文/ELIO/76 | 1991 |
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068052191010017 |
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書誌詳細
| 一般注記 | Bibliography: p. [261]-274 Includes index |
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| 著者標目 | *Paxton, Nancy L., 1949- |
| 件 名 | LCSH:Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Political and social views
全ての件名で検索
LCSH:Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903 LCSH:Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Evolution in literature LCSH:Sex role in literature LCSH:Women in literature |
| 分 類 | LCC:PR4692.F45 DC20:823/.8 NDC8:933 NDC8:930.2 |
| 書誌ID | 1000102907 |
| ISBN | 0691068410 |
| NCID | BA12279962 |
| 巻冊次 | ISBN:0691068410 ; PRICE:$32.95 |
| 登録日 | 2009.09.10 |
| 更新日 | 2009.09.10 |