Spectacles of Realism : Gender, Body, Genre.

Spectacles of Realism : Gender, Body, Genre.

Despite rumors of its demise in literary theory and practice, realism persists. Why this is, and how realism is relevant to current interdisciplinary debates in gender studies and cultural studies, are the questions underlying Spectacles of Realism. With particular reference to nineteenth-century Fr...

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Main Author: Cohen, Margaret, 1958-
Other Authors: Prendergast, Christopher
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
Series:Cultural politics.
Subjects:
Feminist theory.
Realism.
Feminism and literature.
Feminism and literature
Feminist theory
Realism
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Preface: Reconfiguring Realism; Introduction: Realism, God's Secret, and the Body; Female Sexuality and the Referent of Enlightenment Realisms; Censoring the Realist Gaze; Realism without a Human Face; In Lieu of a Chapter on Some French Women Realist Novelists; S/Z, Realism, and Compulsory Heterosexuality; Real Fashion: Clothes Unmake the Working Woman; Figura Serpentinata: Visual Seduction and the Colonial Gaze; Flaubert and Realism: Paternity, Authority, and Sexual Difference; The Adulteress's Child; The Body and the Body Politic in the Novels of the Goncourts.
  • Experimenting on Women: Zola's Theory and Practice of the Experimental NovelTemples of Delight: Consuming Consumption in Emile Zola's Au Bonheur des dames; The Morgue and the Musée Grévin: Understanding the Public Taste for Reality in Fin-de Siècle Paris; Bayadères, Stéréorama, and Vahat-Loukoum: Technological Realism in the Age of Empire; A Question of Reference: Male Sexuality in Phallic Theory; Courbet's L'Origine du monde: The.

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