Confessional subjects : revelations of gender and power in Victorian literature and culture
This text examines the gendered power relationships embedded in confessional literature of the Victorian period. Based on cultural criticism, poststructuralism and feminist theory, Bernstein's analysis constitutes a reassessment of Freud's and Foucault's theories of confession.
Print Book, English, ©1997
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©1997
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780807823132, 9780807846247, 0807823139, 0807846244
34912653
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