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- catalog abstract ""Subjects on Display explores a recurrent figure at the heart of many nineteenth-century English novels: the retiring, self-effacing woman who is conspicuous for her inconspicuousness. Beth Newman draws upon both psychoanalytic theory and recent work in social history as she argues that this paradoxical figure, who often triumphs over more dazzling, eye-catching rivals, is a response to the forces that made personal display a vexed issue for Victorian women. Chief among these is the changing socioeconomic landscape that made the ideal of the modest woman outlive its usefulness as a class signifier even as it continued to exert moral authority. This problem cannot be grasped in its full complexity, Newman shows, without considering how the unstable social meanings of display interacted with psychical forces-specifically, the desire to be seen by others that is central to both masculine and feminine subjectivity. This desire raises an issue that feminist theorists have been reluctant to address: the importance of pleasure in being the object of the look. Their reluctance is characteristic of cultural theory, which has tended to equate subjectivity with the position of the observer rather than the observed. Through a consideration of fiction by Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James, Newman shifts the inquiry toward the observed in the experience of being seen. In the process she reopens the question of the gaze and its relation to subjectivity."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13268176.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Subjects on Display explores a recurrent figure at the heart of many nineteenth-century English novels: the retiring, self-effacing woman who is conspicuous for her inconspicuousness. Beth Newman draws upon both psychoanalytic theory and recent work in social history as she argues that this paradoxical figure, who often triumphs over more dazzling, eye-catching rivals, is a response to the forces that made personal display a vexed issue for Victorian women. Chief among these is the changing socioeconomic landscape that made the ideal of the modest woman outlive its usefulness as a class signifier even as it continued to exert moral authority.".
- catalog description "Display, invisibility, and the Victorian feminine ideal -- The uses of obscurity : Jane Eyre, Lucy Snowe, and the disposition against display -- Display and the body from David Copperfield to Bleak House -- George Eliots̕ exhibitionist desire -- Getting fixed : The turn of the screw and the contradictions of genteel femininity -- The subject of display in theory and history.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-181) and index.".
- catalog description "This problem cannot be grasped in its full complexity, Newman shows, without considering how the unstable social meanings of display interacted with psychical forces-specifically, the desire to be seen by others that is central to both masculine and feminine subjectivity. This desire raises an issue that feminist theorists have been reluctant to address: the importance of pleasure in being the object of the look. Their reluctance is characteristic of cultural theory, which has tended to equate subjectivity with the position of the observer rather than the observed.".
- catalog description "Through a consideration of fiction by Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James, Newman shifts the inquiry toward the observed in the experience of being seen. In the process she reopens the question of the gaze and its relation to subjectivity."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "x, 192 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Subjects on display.".
- catalog identifier "0821415484 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Subjects on display.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Athens : Ohio University Press,".
- catalog relation "Subjects on display.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "823/.8093522 22".
- catalog subject "Assertiveness (Psychology) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Assertiveness in women.".
- catalog subject "Bashfulness in literature.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Expectation (Psychology) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Femininity in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR878.W6 N48 2004".
- catalog subject "Psychoanalysis and literature Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Psychological fiction, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Sex role in literature.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Display, invisibility, and the Victorian feminine ideal -- The uses of obscurity : Jane Eyre, Lucy Snowe, and the disposition against display -- Display and the body from David Copperfield to Bleak House -- George Eliots̕ exhibitionist desire -- Getting fixed : The turn of the screw and the contradictions of genteel femininity -- The subject of display in theory and history.".
- catalog title "Subjects on display : psychoanalysis, social expectation, and Victorian femininity / Beth Newman.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".