Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists

by Donald E. Hall

Book Overview

Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists explores representations of monstrous women in mid-Victorian literature, tracing anxious male responses to the feminist movement of the era. It argues that Victorian patriarchy was a fluid theory and set of practices through which Victorian men attempted unsuccessfully to fix gender definitions and their own positions of power. In Victorian novels written by men, the thorough instability...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 033365577X
• ISBN13: 9780333655771
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"