Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and Culture

by Susan David Bernstein

Book Overview

Susan Bernstein examines the gendered power relationships embedded in confessional literature of the Victorian period. Exploring this dynamic in Charlotte Bronta's Villette , Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret , George Eliot's Daniel Deronda , and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles , she argues that although women's disclosures to male confessors repeatedly depict wrongdoing committed against them, they themselves are viewed as the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807846244
• ISBN13: 9780807846247
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher