Passions of the voice : hysteria, narrative, and the figure of the speaking woman, 1850-1915
This study argues that the subversion of gender definitions promoted especially by feminism in the late 19th century profoundly unsettled Victorian narrative discourse. It considers a number of texts that manifest an anxiety of imagination provoked by the figure of the speaking woman.
Print Book, English, 1995
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1995
xviii, 196 p. ; 23 cm
9780801851612, 0801851610
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