Rewriting the Victorians: Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender

by Linda M. Shires

This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyzes power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This volume is the first to reshape Victorian studies from the perspective of the postmodern return to history, and is variously influenced by Marxism, sociology, anthropology, and post-structuralist theories of language and subjectivity. It analyzes the struggle for legitimacy and recognition in Victorian institutions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041575237X
• ISBN13: 9780415752374
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages