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- catalog abstract "Jill Matus uses bio-medical, social scientific and literary texts to interrogate Victorian concepts of sexual difference. Departing from the usual critical focus on Victorian conceptions of the sexes as incommensurably different, she emphasises the powerful effects in Victorian culture of notions of sexual instability and approximation. While ideas about mutable or ambiguous sexuality provoked fear and fascination, they also served Victorian middle-class ideology by offering 'scientific' ways of constructing racial, class and national identity in terms of the body. Throughout this period fierce public debates raged around prostitution, infanticide, working-class sexuality, female reproduction and domesticity. Drawing on works by Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and the Brontes, Matus explores the dialogue between literary and other discourses of sexuality. Unstable bodies will be an essential reference work for students and scholars working in Victorian literary and cultural studies, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality.".
- catalog contributor b6957889.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Unstable bodies -- Ch. 1. Sexual slippage and approximation in Victorian biomedical discourse. Sex as a continuum. Nature and culture. The sexual instincts. The politics of instability -- Ch. 2. The making of the moral mother: working class sexuality in Mary Barton -- Ch. 3. Confession, secrecy and exhibition. Agnes Grey and the 'animal side of life'. Passionlessness and prostitution in Ruth. Looking at Cleopatra: the exhibition and expression of desire in Villette -- Ch. 4. Maternal deviance. Wet-nurses, infanticide and the discourse of motherhood. 'The unnaturalness of her crime': maternal instinct in Adam Bede. Sorrow on the Sea: The business of maternity. Madness and badness: Lady Audley's Secret -- Ch. 5. From hysteria to maternity: Saint Teresa and the Madonna in Middlemarch.".
- catalog description "Jill Matus uses bio-medical, social scientific and literary texts to interrogate Victorian concepts of sexual difference. Departing from the usual critical focus on Victorian conceptions of the sexes as incommensurably different, she emphasises the powerful effects in Victorian culture of notions of sexual instability and approximation. While ideas about mutable or ambiguous sexuality provoked fear and fascination, they also served Victorian middle-class ideology by offering 'scientific' ways of constructing racial, class and national identity in terms of the body. Throughout this period fierce public debates raged around prostitution, infanticide, working-class sexuality, female reproduction and domesticity. Drawing on works by Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and the Brontes, Matus explores the dialogue between literary and other discourses of sexuality. Unstable bodies will be an essential reference work for students and scholars working in Victorian literary and cultural studies, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality.".
- catalog extent "280 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Unstable bodies.".
- catalog identifier "0719043476".
- catalog identifier "0719043484 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Unstable bodies.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York, NY, USA : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog relation "Unstable bodies.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "1996 D-621".
- catalog subject "306.7/082 20".
- catalog subject "Ethics Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "HQ 29 M445u 1995".
- catalog subject "HQ29 .M44 1995".
- catalog subject "Literature, Modern Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Motherhood Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Mothers Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Sex in literature.".
- catalog subject "Sexual Behavior Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Sexual ethics Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Women Great Britain Sexual behavior History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women Sexual behavior Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Unstable bodies -- Ch. 1. Sexual slippage and approximation in Victorian biomedical discourse. Sex as a continuum. Nature and culture. The sexual instincts. The politics of instability -- Ch. 2. The making of the moral mother: working class sexuality in Mary Barton -- Ch. 3. Confession, secrecy and exhibition. Agnes Grey and the 'animal side of life'. Passionlessness and prostitution in Ruth. Looking at Cleopatra: the exhibition and expression of desire in Villette -- Ch. 4. Maternal deviance. Wet-nurses, infanticide and the discourse of motherhood. 'The unnaturalness of her crime': maternal instinct in Adam Bede. Sorrow on the Sea: The business of maternity. Madness and badness: Lady Audley's Secret -- Ch. 5. From hysteria to maternity: Saint Teresa and the Madonna in Middlemarch.".
- catalog title "Unstable bodies : Victorian representations of sexuality and maternity / Jill L. Matus.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".