Libro Wisps of Violence: Producing Public & Private Politics in the Turn-Of-The-Century British Novel: Pro De Eileen Sypher

portada Wisps of Violence: Producing Public & Private Politics in the Turn-Of-The-Century British Novel: Producing Public and Private Politics in the Turn-Of-The-Century British Novel

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Blackwell Publishers

Autor

Eileen Sypher

Año

1993

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

204

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780860914365

Categorías

Irlanda
Reino unido
Historia y crítica literaria

Wisps of Violence: Producing Public & Private Politics in the Turn-Of-The-Century British Novel: Producing Public and Private Politics in the Turn-Of-The-Century British Novel

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Eric Hobsbawm has characterized the period from 1880 to 1914 as 'years when wisps of violence hung in the English air', years in which increasingly militant socialists, anarchists and feminists seriously threatened the peace. Curiously, however, few novels of the period openly acknowledged this threat, whether to welcome or criticize it, and those which did under-represent the public political sphere.By juxtaposing both well-known and lesser-known novels - such as Henry James' Princess Casamassima, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, George Bernard Shaw's An Unsocial Socialist, and Gertrude Dix's The Image Breakers - and using the insights of feminist and Machereyan literary theory, Sypher interprets the image of turn-of-the-century politics produced by fiction. Wisps of Violence argues that this fiction tried to contain the threat of the new politics and the nascent collapse of distinct public and private spheres, by attempting to reinvent a separate, domestic sphere presided over by 'woman'. Though few of these novels are 'feminist' texts, they nevertheless suggest as a whole the subtle yet far-reaching extent of this period's social instability, particularly in the area of gender relations.