Women and Romance
The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel
Author(s)
Langbauer, Laurie
Language
EnglishAbstract
According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues in feminist debate, in particular the relations of feminist to the poststructuralist theories of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault. In highlighting questions of gender in this way, Women and Romance contributes to a major debate between skeptical and materialist points of view among poststructuralist critics.
Keywords
Literature: history and criticism; Gender studies, gender groupsDOI
10.7298/nq3t-5h79ISBN
9781501723063, 9780801424212, 9781501723070, 9781501728006, 9781501723063, 9781501723070Publisher
Cornell University PressPublisher website
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/Publication date and place
Ithaca, 1990Imprint
Cornell University PressSeries
Reading Women Writing,Classification
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900