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Title: Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel by Nancy Armstrong ISBN: 0-19-506160-8 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Summary: The Importance of Armstrong's Desire and Domestic Fiction
Comment: Nancy Armstrong's influential book, Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel, connects the rise of the novel with the history of sexuality (ie. gender difference) and the rise of the English middle class. Armstrong's three part explination for the rise of the novel acts as a correction of Isaac Watts' influential triple rise thesis in his study, The Rise of the Novel. Watts connects the rise of the novel to the rise of the middle class, the rise of Puritan values, and the rise of literacy. Armstrong's emphasis clearly differs from Watts insofar as she defines the novel as domestic, women's writing. Armstrong not only redefined Watts' history of the novel, but created a new space in the academic debates about domesticity. By stating the domestic novels were bound up in (indeed antecedent to) the formation of gender difference and the middle class she grants more power to domestic novels than previous ciritics had allowed. Armstrong's analysis of novels (though her writing also has illumunating sections on eighteenth century conduct books and educational theory) begins with Samuel Richardson's Pamela and Jane Austen's Emma, in which she notes the importance of a woman's qualities of mind, as opposed to rank, and how Austen's writing worked to standarize the English language. The study contiues with a history of unions (combinations) in the early ninteenth century, and then moves onto examine the Brontes and how Victorian novels construct the domestic space as one in which women have the power of survelliance, as well as the Vicotrian phenomenon of a character's desiring the one person they are not permitted to obtain (Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights). Her study concludes with a discussion of the process and importance of reading itself. I highly reccomend Desire and Domestic Fiction. It is well worth the read, especially for people who care about the history of the novel, redefinitions of the political sphere and a political and cultural history of sexuality and domesticity.
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Title: The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding by Ian Watt ISBN: 0520230698 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 04 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Novel and the Police by D.A. Miller ISBN: 0520067460 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Yale Nota Bene S.) by Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar ISBN: 0300084587 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach by Michael McKeon ISBN: 080186397X Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $30.95 |
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Title: The True Story of the Novel by Margaret Anne Doody ISBN: 0813524539 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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