Feminine Subjects in Masculine Fiction: Modernity, Will and Desire, 1870-1910

Miller, M.

Between 1870 and 1910 male authors were actively engaged with imagining new possibilities for women, at the same time as the central female figure continued to function as a troubling and unreachable object of aesthetic desire. This book examines these inscrutable female characters who were the ground on which fiction reinvented itself as Art.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2013-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349346912

DOI: 10.1057/9781137341044

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 220