""The Trauma of Gender" is a wonderfully crafted text, provocative, insightful, and imaginative. Moglen not only shows us how to read the intrapsychic processes at work in fiction, but offers a careful consideration of the social form that loss, mourning, and desire take in the fictions she considers. Along the way, she develops a nuanced account of the origin of the novel, showing her readers in subtle ways how the beginnings of fiction and the beginnings of fantasy are interwoven. Her text exemplifies psychoanalytic ...
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""The Trauma of Gender" is a wonderfully crafted text, provocative, insightful, and imaginative. Moglen not only shows us how to read the intrapsychic processes at work in fiction, but offers a careful consideration of the social form that loss, mourning, and desire take in the fictions she considers. Along the way, she develops a nuanced account of the origin of the novel, showing her readers in subtle ways how the beginnings of fiction and the beginnings of fantasy are interwoven. Her text exemplifies psychoanalytic literary criticism at its best, offering a fine and probing study of the social and psychic dimensions of literary works."--Judith Butler, author of "Gender Trouble" "These extremely powerful and authoritative new readings of important canonical texts will set a new standard for discussions of the novel as a genre. Moglen's work as an interpreter of literary texts and of psychoanalytic theories is superior, and her muscular writing style is well-suited to the pleasurably pessimistic bent of her critical mind."--Lisa L. Moore, author of "Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel " "In this lucid and perceptive study, Helene Moglen looks steadily at the shadow side of canonical eighteenth-century fiction and sees the psychic costs of waxing individualism. The book is an excellent corrective to the view that the novel is a triumphant expression of bourgeois values."--Catherine Gallagher, author of "Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820"
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Very good. Ex-library. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 216 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 00055965 Type of material Book Personal name Moglen, Helene, 1936-Main title The trauma of gender: a feminist theory of the English novel / Helene Moglen. Published/Created Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001. Description x, 216 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 0520225880 (alk. paper) 0520225899 (pbk. ) LC classification PR858. F45 M64 2001 LC Subjects English fiction--18th century--History and criticism. Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century. English fiction--Male authors--History and criticism. Feminist fiction, English--History and criticism. Sex role in literature. Sex in literature. Gender identity in literature. Feminist literary criticism. Women in literature. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index. Dewey class no. 823/.509353 Geographic area code e-uk---
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Minor rubbing. VG. 24x15cm, x, 216 pp. "Helene Moglen offers a revisionary feminist argument about the origins, cultural function, and formal structure of the English novel. While most critics and historians have associated the novel's emergence and development with the burgeoning of capitalism and the rise of the middle classes, Moglen contends that the novel principally came into being in order to manage the social and psychological strains of the modern sex-gender system. Rejecting the familiar claim that realism represents the novel's dominant tradition, she shows that, from its inception in the eighteenth century, the English novel has contained both realistic and fantastic narratives, which compete for primacy within individual texts"-Publisher's description.
