Book Details
Outside the Pale : Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer
ISBN 9780801480850
Pages 224
Year 1993
Edition 1
Publisher CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subject LITERATURE & LINGUISTICS
Description
Elsie B. Michie here provides insightful readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, writers who confronted definitions of femininity which denied them full participation in literary culture. Exploring a series of abhorrent images, Michie traces the links between the Victorian definition of femininity and other forms of cultural exclusion such as race and class distinctions.
About Author(s)
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.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Excluded from Discourse and Imprisoned within It:The Position of the Nineteenth-Century Woman Writer
1. Matthers That Appertain to the Imagination: Accounting for Production in Frankenstein
2. The Yahoo, Not the Demon: Heathcliff, Rochester, and the Simianization of the Irish
3. My Story as My Own Property: Gaskell, Dickens, and the Rhetoric of Prostitution
4. Those That Will Not Work: Prostitutes, Property,Gaskell, and Dickens
5. High Art and Science Always Require the Whole Man: Culture and Menstruation in Middlemarch
Conclusion: Products, Simians, Prostitutes, and Menstruation Women: What Do They Have in Common?
Work Cited
Index
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