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Fixing Patriarchy

Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists

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  • © 1996

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  1. Donald E. Hall
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction Female Trouble: Nineteenth-Century Feminism and a Literature of Threat

    1. Introduction Female Trouble: Nineteenth-Century Feminism and a Literature of Threat

      • Donald E. Hall
      Pages 1-17

  5. The 1860s

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. From Margin to Center: Agency and Authority in the Novels of Wilkie Collins

      • Donald E. Hall
      Pages 151-174

    3. Great Expectations and Harsh Realities

      • Donald E. Hall
      Pages 175-195

    4. Conclusion Trollope on Women/Women in Trollope

      • Donald E. Hall
      Pages 196-211

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 213-236
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Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists explores representations of monstrous women in mid-Victorian literature, tracing anxious male responses to the feminist movement of the era. It argues that Victorian patriarchy was a fluid theory and set of practices through which Victorian men attempted unsuccessfully to fix gender definitions and their own positions of power. In Victorian novels written by men, the thorough instability of contemporary conceptions of both masculinity and femininity is revealed, as an entire society struggled with new forms of self-awareness and new threats to traditional social structures and systems of belief.

About the author

DONALD E. HALL is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of English at California State University, Northridge, where he teaches Victorian literature, feminist theory, and queer studies. He is the author of Muscular Christianity: Embodying the Victorian Age, and co-editor of RePresenting Bisexualities.

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