Table of Contents: Confessional subjects :

Main Author:	Bernstein, Susan David.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997.
Subjects:	English prose literature > History and criticism. > 19th century Confession in literature. Women and literature > History > 19th century. > Great Britain English literature > Women authors > History and criticism. English fiction > History and criticism. > 19th century Anti-Catholicism > History > 19th century. > England Power (Social sciences) in literature. Sex role in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Anti-Catholicism. Civilization. English fiction. English literature > Women authors. English prose literature. Women and literature. Roman Geschlechterrolle Macht Bekenntnis Roman anglais > Thèmes, motifs. > 19e siècle Rôle selon le sexe > Dans la littérature. Femmes > Dans la littérature. Roman. Geschlechterrolle. Macht. Geschichte 1832-1902. Bekenntnis. Geschlechterrolle (Motiv) Great Britain > Civilization > 19th century. England. Great Britain. Englisch.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Confession and Gender: A Process of Power
Ch. 1. Theorizing Confession, Gendering Confession
Ch. 2. Histories and Fictions of Victorian Confession: Anti-Catholic Rhetoric and Villette
Ch. 3. That Narrow Boundary Line: Figures of Female Degeneracy and Lady Audley's Secret
Ch. 4. The Bonds and Bondage of Gender and Race: Paternal Metaphors of Confession in Daniel Deronda
Ch. 5. The Un-Intact State: Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Confessions of Sexual and Textual Violence.