Women and RomancePub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.7591/9781501723063-008
{"title":"4. Streetwalkers and Homebodies: Dickens's Romantic Women","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/9781501723063-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723063-008","url":null,"abstract":"Lennox's and Wollstonecraft's novels, on one level, seem to maintain romance as a consoling realm: their novels seem to set it up as a (woman's) form within which women writers and their heroines can escape or elude constricting power relations . Yet their treatment of romance also reveals the way such power relations trap us all in wishful structures. Such treatment does not only provide a way to attempt to circumvent power; it also allows a way to analyze power, and Lennox's and Wollstonecraft's portrayals of this system emphasize how woman is deployed as a category with in and enabling it. Charles Dickens's novels continue to use women and romance to seem to deny and console . Dickens's work appears to manifest its wishfulness differently from that of the women writers I have ana lyzed so far; rather than gesturing to some autonomous female realm in his work, the figure of woman and the form of romance become scapegoats whose implication in power suggests autono my for men and novels . Yet, although such differences seem to point to the difference between male and female writers, their different stakes in constructing women and romance, Dickens's work also breaks down such categories of gender and genre . What his work defines as the feminine and romantic also inhabits it, and reveals its own inheritance within a system of power.","PeriodicalId":162265,"journal":{"name":"Women and Romance","volume":"70 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132624219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women and RomancePub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.7591/9781501723063-002
{"title":"Acknowledgments","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/9781501723063-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723063-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":162265,"journal":{"name":"Women and Romance","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115704493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women and RomancePub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.7591/9781501723063-010
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/9781501723063-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723063-010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":162265,"journal":{"name":"Women and Romance","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122282776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women and RomancePub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.7591/9781501723063-006
Charlotte Lennox's
{"title":"2. Diverting Romance : Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote","authors":"Charlotte Lennox's","doi":"10.7591/9781501723063-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723063-006","url":null,"abstract":"Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Ara bella, published in 1752, coming, as it does, at the historical mo ment in England that critics associate with the rise of the novel, demonstrates the way gender underlies our constructions as critics of literary history. In its mockery of quixotism, The Female Quixote engages with what had already become a literary convention . It borrows its informing tension between the novel and romance from Don Quixote but does so with a difference. By shifting the tension to the story of a young woman rather than an old man, it inaugurates within the English novel tradition the inherent relation between heroines and romance. In this chapter, I examine the way that association is crucial to the tradition. Lennox's novel both exposes and acts out the association be tween women and romance. Its heroine Arabella, caught between the novel and romance, becomes the focus for the struggle be tween genres and comes to exemplify Lennox's own dilemma as a woman writer: the imperative to leave behind the insubstantial world of romance, the only realm in which the woman (writer) is given a place, however illusory. The Female Quixote reveals that the novelistic world it strives to establish through a critique of the emptiness of romance has no real place for woman except in re peating her association with romance . The only alternative it can offer her is this revelation, this critique, which exposes the work ings of the system of representation and the logic of the tradition, without modifying or changing them, or giving her some other","PeriodicalId":162265,"journal":{"name":"Women and Romance","volume":"25 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132604440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women and RomancePub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.7591/9781501723063-005
{"title":"1. The Romance of History, or Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny, Sometimes","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/9781501723063-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723063-005","url":null,"abstract":"This book is primarily a formal analysis; it focuses on enduring problems of distinguishing and defining form, in this case the English novel, not on the specific and changing historical condi tions within which that novel develops . Yet from a feminist per spective one of the material problems in women's relation to the definition of form must be the problem of the material. Many femi nist literary critics-such as Biddy Martin, Nancy Armstrong, Cora Kaplan, Mary Poovey, or Gayatri Spivak-have argued that we need to give renewed attention to material conditions in order to understand the role of gender within the novelistic tradition-and, along with that, to analyze our cultural situation properly and perhaps also to change it. That attention would take the form of an attention to history and the historical process, which such critics claim might grant some access to the material, perhaps enough to help us modify our conditions. 1 These feminist investigations that attend to material context have been invaluable . In this chapter, however, while not denying or refusing the material, I open up the questions I ask later on by","PeriodicalId":162265,"journal":{"name":"Women and Romance","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115866109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women and RomancePub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.7591/9781501723063-009
{"title":"5. Recycling Patriarchy's Garbage: George Eliot's Pessimism and the Problem of a Site for Feminism","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/9781501723063-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723063-009","url":null,"abstract":"Theorists have long considered the way Western metaphysics has formed around metaphors of sight. Our notions of reality are informed by our understanding of what the visual means, es pecially by the assumption that the observation of empirical data somehow offers access to universal truth and natural law. So too literature and literary theory have always been intrigued by the relations be�een the linguistic and the visual . The conventions of literary realism rely on verbal imitations of such supposedly objec tive observation, proceeding as if a thousand words can actually equal a picture . Recent post-structural literary theory and criticism have investigated in particular this privileging of sight and the way language attempts to lay claim to it. One feminist approach, influ enced especially by Lacanian psychoanalysis, foregrounds the im portance of gender in its unraveling of the epistemological assump tions implied in questions of representation. By focusing on what critical shorthand terms \"the male gaze,\" these feminists have demonstrated how the scapegoating of women within the specular economy mars its transparency and brings its assumptions to our attention. 1 But more recent-Foucauldian-approaches to the stra-","PeriodicalId":162265,"journal":{"name":"Women and Romance","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121993623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/9781501723063-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723063-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":162265,"journal":{"name":"Women and Romance","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124487546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women and RomancePub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.7591/9781501723063-012
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/9781501723063-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723063-012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":162265,"journal":{"name":"Women and Romance","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129637998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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