Politicizing Gender: Narrative Strategies in the Aftermath of the French Revolution

by Doris Y. Kadish

It is Doris Kadish's contention in this book that gender and politics went hand-in-hand in the nineteenth century; that nineteenth-century works can often be read as retellings of the French Revolution; and that the political meanings of these works can be gleaned through the study of narrative strategies that she chooses to call "semiotic readings." Building on the work of Marina Warner, Lynn Hunt, Joan Landes, Nancy Armstrong, Foucault and others,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813517087
• ISBN13: 9780813517087
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.