Ann Cvetkovich - Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism

Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

1234567...91

---

title	:	Mixed Feelings : Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism
author	:	Cvetkovich, Ann.
publisher	:	Rutgers University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0813518571
print isbn13	:	9780813518572
ebook isbn13	:	9780585022628
language	:	English
subject	English fiction--19th century--History and criticism, Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century, Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century, Popular culture--Great Britain--History--19th century, Feminist fiction, Engli
publication date	:	1992
lcc	:	PR878.F45C85 1992eb
ddc	:	823/.809352042
subject	:	English fiction--19th century--History and criticism, Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century, Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century, Popular culture--Great Britain--History--19th century, Feminist fiction, Engli

MIXED FEELINGS

Mixed Feelings Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism ANN CVETKOVICH RUTGERS University Press New Brunswick, New Jersey

An earlier version of chapter four, "Ghostlier Determinations: The Economy of Sensation and The Woman in White," appeared in Novel 23 (Fall 1989): 24-43. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cvetkovich, Ann, 1957 Mixed feelings: feminism, mass culture, and Victorian sensationalism / Ann Cvetkovich. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8135-1856-3 (cloth).-ISBN 0-8135-1857-1 (pbk.) 1. English fiction-19th century-History and criticism. 2. Feminism and literature-Great Britain-History-19th century. 3. Women and literature-Great Britain-History-19th century 4. Great Britain-Popular culture-History-19th century. 5. Sensationalism in literature. I. Title. PR878.F45C85 1992 823'.809352042-dc2092-4457 CIP British Cataloging-in-Publication information available. Copyright 1992 by Ann Cvetkovich All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America

In memory of Ann Elmore Haig-Brown

CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Politics of Affect 1 One - Marketing Affect: The Nineteenth-Century Sensation Novel 13 Two - Theorizing Affect: Twentieth-Century Mass Culture Criticism 26 Three - Detective in the House: Subversion and Containment in Lady Audley's Secret 45 Four - Ghostlier Determinations: The Economy of Sensation and The Woman in White 71 Five - Crying for Power: East Lynne and Maternal Melodrama 97 Six - The Inside Story: On Sympathy in Daniel Deronda 128 Seven - Marx's Capital and the Mystery of the Commodity 165 Epilogue 199 Notes 205 Index 223

Page ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book began as a dissertation under the guidance of Harry Shaw, Jonathan Culler, and Dorothy Mermin, for whose contributions in the early stages of this project I remain grateful. A Charlotte Newcombe Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation helped me finish my dissertation. As a graduate student at Cornell, I was able to immerse myself in the theoretical discourses-poststructuralist, Foucauldian, psychoanalytic, feminist, and Marxist-that underlie the book's more specific concerns, and I am grateful for the inspiration provided by Cynthia Chase, Walter Cohen, Neil Hertz, Mark Seltzer, Jim Siegel, and Gayatri Spivak. Financial support for the crucial year during which my dissertation metamorphosed into a book came from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the University of Texas Research Institute. I would like to thank my colleagues at Wesleyan University's Center for the Humanities, especially Dick Ohmann, the director, for providing such a pleasurable intellectual community. I was particularly fortunate during that year to work with Nancy Armstrong and Christina Crosby, to whom I am indebted for making Victorian culture important to me. Another source of institutional support, although a less formal one, has been the Marxist Literary Group's annual Institute on Culture and Society, which has given me an ideal forum for intellectual exchange and a network of valued friends. I especially want to thank Mark Driscoll, Patrick Hagopian, Tres Pyle, Hilary Radner, and Paul Smith. Among my colleagues at the University of Texas, Ramon Saldivar, Lisa Moore, and especially Barbara Harlow, have been dedicated comrades and friends. I owe special thanks to Leslie Mitchner at Rutgers University Press, whose early interest in my project and ongoing enthusiasm and insight have been invaluable.

Next page

1234567...91

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism»

Look at similar books to Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Stephanie D. Clare

Earthly Encounters: Sensation, Feminist Theory, and the Anthropocene

Barry J. Faulk

Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture

Juliet John

The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture

Oliver Lovesey

Victorian Social Activists Novels Vol 1

Ann Cvetkovich

Articulating The Global And The Local

Kavka Misha

Feminist Consequences: Theory for the New Century

Avila

American Cultural History: a Very Short Introduction

Martin A. Danahay

Gender at Work in Victorian Culture: Literature, Art and Masculinit

Goldhill Simon

Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity

Paula Rabinowitz

Labor and Desire: Womens Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America (Gender and American Culture)

Catherine Gallagher

The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel

Marlene Tromp

Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context

Discussion, reviews of the book Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.