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Susan Bernstein examines the gendered power relationships embedded in confessional literature of the Victorian period. Exploring this dynamic in Charlotte Bront?s Villette Mary Elizabeth Braddons Lady Audleys Secret George Eliots Daniel Deronda and Thomas Hardys Tess of the dUrbervilles she argues that although womens disclosures to male confessors repeatedly depict wrongdoing committed against them, they themselves are viewed as the transgressors. Bernstein emphasizes the secularization of confession, but she also places these narratives within the context of the anti-Catholic tract literature of the time.
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Confessional Subjects : Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and Culture
author
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Bernstein, Susan David.
publisher
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University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
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0807823139
print isbn13
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9780807823132
ebook isbn13
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9780807860366
language
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English
subject
English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism, Confession in literature, Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century, English literature--Women authors--History and criticism, English fiction--19th century--History and criti
publication date
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1997
lcc
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PR788.C56B47 1997eb
ddc
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828/.80809353
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English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism, Confession in literature, Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century, English literature--Women authors--History and criticism, English fiction--19th century--History and criti
Confessional Subjects
Revelations of Gender and Power In Victorian Literature and Culture
Susan David Bernstein
The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London
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1997 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Frontispiece: Sir John Everett Millais, The Vale of Rest, 1858/9. Oil on canvas. (Courtesy of the Tate Gallery) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bernstein, Susan David. Confessional subjects: revelations of gender and power in Victorian literature and culture / Susan David Bernstein. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8078-23 13-9 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 0-8078-4624-4 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. English prose literature19th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. Confession in literature. 3. Women and litera tureGreat BritainHistory-19th century. 4. English literature-Women authorsHistory and criticism. 5. English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticism. 6. Anti-Catholicism-EnglandHistory 19th century. 7. Great BritainCivilization 19th century. 8. Power (Social sciences) in literature. 9. Sex roles in literature. I. Title.
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IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY PARENTS, Barbara Melman Bernstein Sidney Bernstein
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Contents
Preface
ix
Introduction Confession and Gender: A Process of Power
Chapter 2 Histories and Fictions of Victorian Confession: Anti-Catholic Rhetoric and Villette
41
Chapter 3 That Narrow Boundary Line: Figures of Female Degeneracy and Lady Audley's Secret
73
Chapter 4 The Bonds and Bondage of Gender and Race Paternal Metaphors of Confession in Daniel Deronda:
105
Chapter 5 The Un-Intact State: Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Confessions of Sexual and Textual Violence
143
Notes
165
Bibliography
191
Index
199
Page ix
Preface
The genesis of this project unfolded nearly ten years ago when Michael Ryan suggested my name for a 1986 MLA panel on the reception to Lacan in the United States. I participated in this session with a paper that later became an article entitled "Confessing Lacan." Although this book focuses on Victorian uses of confession, my thinking about confession and power actually began with speculations about Jane Gallop's and Stuart Schneiderman's first-person anecdotes in writing about Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. I was intrigued with the different rhetorical effects of this personal criticism, which I labeled a "confessional mode" because of the way autobiographical disclosure functions as an intrusion where the subject attention shifts from Lacan's texts to the narrating subject. It seemed evident in my reading that both Gallop in Reading Lacan and Schneiderman in Jacques Lacan: The Death of an Intellectual Hero deployed this version of confession as a rhetorical strategy, yet I found Gallop to be more self-conscious, more canny, than Schneiderman about the relationship between power and signification. I observed that Schneiderman's brand of confession revealed his allegiance to his own literary confessional fathersbefore Lacanthat is, to Augustine and Rousseau, inasmuch as Schneiderman's "I" reigns supreme throughout his discourse. Yet Gallop's confessional interruptions, shaped by feminist theories, often dislodge the traditional opposition between subject and object, and through that unanchoring, Gallop draws attention to the power relations between analyst and analysand, between confessor and confessional subject.
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