 | Rewriting the Victorians: Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender Subjects: Humanities; Language & Literature; Social Sciences; Class and Work; Gender and Sexuality; Family and Demography; Health and Welfare; Rural and Urban Life; Race and Empire; Crime and Punishment; Cultural Studies; Literature; Sociology & Social Policy; Social Groups; Sex; Gender Roles and Stereotypes; Family; Medical Care; Transport; Concepts of Society; Travel and Exploration; Crimes; Life Cycle; Feminist Literature & Theory; Literary/ Critical Theory; Gender Studies; Gender; Literature by Period; Middle Classes; Femininity; Working Classes; Motherhood; Pregnancy and Childbirth; Rivers and Canals; Tourism; Household Size; Childhood; This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyzes power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This volume is the first to reshape Victorian studies from the perspective of the postmodern return to history, and is variously influenced by Marxism, sociology, anthropology, and post-structuralist theories of language and subjectivity. It analyzes the struggle for legitimacy and recognition in Victorian institutions and the struggle over meanings in ideological representation of the gendered subject in texts. Contributors cover diverse topics, including Victorian ideologies of motherhood, the male gaze, the cult of the male child genius in narrative painting, the press, and Victorian women and the French Revolution, discussing both well-known and less familiar Victorian texts. Linda M. Shires is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Stern College, Yeshiva University, New York. |
