Curious Subjects: Women and the Trials of Realism

by Hilary M. Schor

Book Overview

While nineteenth-century literary scholars have long been interested in women's agency in the context of their legal status as objects, Curious Subjects makes the striking and original argument that what we find at the intersection between women subjects (who choose and enter into contracts) and women objects (owned and defined by fathers, husbands, and the law) is curiosity. Women protagonists in the novel are always both curiosities: strange objects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190624000
• ISBN13: 9780190624002
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"