The feminine sublime : gender and excess in women's fiction
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- Label
- The feminine sublime : gender and excess in women's fiction
- Title remainder
- gender and excess in women's fiction
- Statement of responsibility
- Barbara Claire Freeman
- Subject
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- Sex role in literature
- Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries
- Feminist fiction
- Feminist fiction -- History and criticism
- Authorship -- Sex differences
- Écrits de femmes anglais -- Histoire et critique
- Het sublieme
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Feminism and literature
- Esthétique
- Féminité dans la littérature
- Sex role in literature
- Femmes et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
- Sex role in literature
- Sublime dans la littérature
- Féminisme et littérature
- Fictie
- Sublime, The, in literature
- Feminism and literature
- American fiction -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Authorship -- Sex differences
- Femininity in literature
- Roman anglais -- Histoire et critique
- Écrits de femmes américains -- Histoire et critique
- Femininity in literature
- Femininity in literature
- Authorship -- Sex differences
- Vrouwelijkheid
- Aesthetics, Modern
- Sublime, The, in literature
- Feminism and literature
- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature
- American fiction -- Women authors | History and criticism
- American fiction -- Women authors
- English fiction -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Sekseverschillen
- Feminist fiction -- History and criticism
- Art d'écrire -- Différences entre sexes
- English-speaking countries
- Women and literature -- English-speaking countries
- Femmes et littérature -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Aesthetics, Modern
- Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries
- Aesthetics, Modern
- Sublime, The, in literature
- Literatur
- English fiction -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Women and literature
- Sublime, The, in literature
- Feminism and literature
- Aesthetics, Modern
- Vrouwelijke auteurs
- Femininity in literature
- English fiction -- Women authors
- Roman américain -- Histoire et critique
- Sex role in literature
- Authorship -- Sex differences
- Women and literature -- English-speaking countries
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- Freeman reconsiders Longinus, Burke, Kant, Weiskel, Hertz, and Derrida and at the same time engages a wide range of women's fiction, including novels by Chopin, Morrison, Rhys, Shelley, and Wharton. Locating her project in the coincident rise of the novel and concept of the sublime in eighteenth-century European culture, Freeman allies the articulation of sublime experience with questions of agency, passion, and alterity in modern and contemporary women's fiction. She argues that the theoretical discourses that have seemed merely to explain the sublime also function to evaluate, domesticate, and ultimately exclude an otherness that, almost without exception, is gendered as feminine. Just as important, she explores the ways in which fiction by American and British women, mainly of the twentieth century, responds to and redefines what the tradition has called "the sublime."
- The Feminine Sublime provides the first comprehensive feminist critique of the theory of the sublime. Barbara Claire Freeman argues that traditional theorizations of the sublime depend on unexamined assumptions about femininity and sexual difference, and that the sublime could not exist without misogynistic constructions of "the feminine." Taking this as her starting point, Freeman suggests that the "other sublime" that comes into view from this new perspective not only offers a crucial way to approach representations of excess in women's fiction but allows us to envision other modes of writing the sublime
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS374.W6
- LC item number
- F67 1995
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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