Sex, Politics, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

by Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Book Overview

Six critics consider what is significantly not present or at least significantly well hidden in a provocative examination of the cultural anxieties that the nineteenth-century novel manipulates and conceals.

Probing the connections between literary and sexual politics, the authors question the absence of the police from Barchester Towers and the presence of homoeroticism in "The Beast in the Jungle." They consider the Victorian's sharpened...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801842115
• ISBN13: 9780801842115
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"