Outside the Pale: Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer

Elsie B. Michie

Published by Cornell University Press 1993

Outside the Pale

Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer

Elsie B. Michie

In the series Reading Women Writing

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501724510

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About this book

Elsie B. Michie here provides insightful readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Emily and Charlotte Bront, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, writers who confronted definitions of femininity which denied them full participation in literary culture...

Author / Editor information

Elsie B. Michie is Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University. A graduate of Brown University, she received her Ph.D. degree from Yale University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: "Excluded from Discourse and Imprisoned within It": The Position of the Nineteenth-Century Woman Writer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. "Matters That Appertain to the Imagination": Accounting for Production in Frankenstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
2. "The Yahoo, Not the Demon": Heathcliff, Rochester, and the Simianization of the Irish Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
3. "My Story as My Own Property": Gaskell, Dickens, and the Rhetoric of Prostitution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
4. "Those That Will Not Work": Prostitutes, Property, Gaskell, and Dickens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
5. "High Art and Science Always Require the Whole Man": Culture and Menstruation in Middlemarch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
Conclusion: Products, Simians, Prostitutes, and Menstruating Women: What Do They Have in Common? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Keywords: Literary Studies; Gender Studies

eBook

Published: July 5, 2018
ISBN: 9781501724510