Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists

by Donald E. Hall

Book Overview

The 1840s, 50s, and 60s: three decades during which the British feminist movement saw some of its most intense activity of the nineteenth-century, and readers find some of the most monstrous, troubling representations of women by male writers in all of literary history. In Fixing Patriarchy, Donald E. Hall suggests that feminism at mid-century posed intertwined social, economic, political and psychological threats to patriarchy. Hall explores the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814735363
• ISBN13: 9780814735367
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"