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.