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Subjects on Display : Psychoanalysis, Social Expectation, and Victorian Femininity.

Newman, Beth.

Subjects on Display : Psychoanalysis, Social Expectation, and Victorian Femininity. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (202 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Display, Invisibility, and the Victorian Feminine Ideal -- 2 The Uses of Obscurity -- 3 Display and the Body from David Copperfield to Bleak House -- 4 George Eliot's Exhibitionist Desire -- 5 Getting Fixed -- 6 The Subject of Display in Theory and History -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature -- Great Britain.
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Assertiveness (Psychology) in literature.
Expectation (Psychology) in literature.


Electronic books.

PR878.W6 -- N48 2004eb

823/.8093522

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