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Bruce, Leslie Jeanine.

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Outlaw mothers: Marital conflict, family law, and women's novels in Victorian England.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Outlaw mothers: Marital conflict, family law, and women's novels in Victorian England./
作者:	Bruce, Leslie Jeanine.
面頁冊數:	228 p.
附註:	Adviser: Hilary M. Schor.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-01A.
標題:	History, European. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3291916
ISBN:	9780549391845

Outlaw mothers: Marital conflict, family law, and women's novels in Victorian England.
Bruce, Leslie Jeanine.

Outlaw mothers: Marital conflict, family law, and women's novels in Victorian England. - 228 p.

Adviser: Hilary M. Schor.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2007.

This project analyzes the subtle, yet powerful, engagement of women's Victorian novels with evolving contemporary legal discourse regarding family relations. Reading fiction by Anne Bronte, George Eliot, Caroline Norton, and Margaret Oliphant, I argue that these authors' representations of mothers confronting marital conflict denaturalize the legal fictions undergirding inequitable family laws as well as the reductive constructions of the proper family prevailing in the English novel. Because these writers commonly appropriate certain conventions of legal discourse (such as testimonial structures) while eschewing others (like dispassionate rhetoric), they unsettle the generic boundaries between legal and novelistic discourse. As a result, these women's fictions generate a new authority for the novel that challenges the law's nearly absolute jurisdiction over family conflict and holds out new possibilities for female agency.

ISBN: 9780549391845Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018076
History, European.

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