The Resource Unstable bodies : Victorian representations of sexuality and maternity, Jill L. Matus
Unstable bodies : Victorian representations of sexuality and maternity, Jill L. Matus
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- Summary
- Jill Matus uses bio-medical, social scientific and literary texts to interrogate Victorian concepts of sexual difference. Departing from the usual critical focus on Victorian conceptions of the sexes as incommensurably different, she emphasises the powerful effects in Victorian culture of notions of sexual instability and approximation. While ideas about mutable or ambiguous sexuality provoked fear and fascination, they also served Victorian middle-class ideology by offering 'scientific' ways of constructing racial, class and national identity in terms of the body. Throughout this period fierce public debates raged around prostitution, infanticide, working-class sexuality, female reproduction and domesticity. Drawing on works by Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and the Brontes, Matus explores the dialogue between literary and other discourses of sexuality. Unstable bodies will be an essential reference work for students and scholars working in Victorian literary and cultural studies, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 280 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: Unstable bodies
- Ch. 1. Sexual slippage and approximation in Victorian biomedical discourse. Sex as a continuum. Nature and culture. The sexual instincts. The politics of instability
- Ch. 2. The making of the moral mother: working class sexuality in Mary Barton
- Ch. 3. Confession, secrecy and exhibition. Agnes Grey and the 'animal side of life'. Passionlessness and prostitution in Ruth. Looking at Cleopatra: the exhibition and expression of desire in Villette
- Ch. 4. Maternal deviance. Wet-nurses, infanticide and the discourse of motherhood. 'The unnaturalness of her crime': maternal instinct in Adam Bede. Sorrow on the Sea: The business of maternity. Madness and badness: Lady Audley's Secret
- Ch. 5. From hysteria to maternity: Saint Teresa and the Madonna in Middlemarch
- Isbn
- 9780719043482
- Label
- Unstable bodies : Victorian representations of sexuality and maternity
- Title
- Unstable bodies
- Title remainder
- Victorian representations of sexuality and maternity
- Statement of responsibility
- Jill L. Matus
- Subject
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- Femmes -- Grande-Bretagne -- Comportement sexuel | Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Femmes et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- History
- Literature, Modern -- history
- Maternité -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Moederschap
- Morale sexuelle -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Motherhood -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Mothers -- history
- Seksualiteit
- Ethics -- history
- Sexual Behavior -- history
- Sexual ethics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Sexualité dans la littérature
- United Kingdom
- Victoriaanse tijd
- Women -- Sexual behavior -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Women -- history
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Sex in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Jill Matus uses bio-medical, social scientific and literary texts to interrogate Victorian concepts of sexual difference. Departing from the usual critical focus on Victorian conceptions of the sexes as incommensurably different, she emphasises the powerful effects in Victorian culture of notions of sexual instability and approximation. While ideas about mutable or ambiguous sexuality provoked fear and fascination, they also served Victorian middle-class ideology by offering 'scientific' ways of constructing racial, class and national identity in terms of the body. Throughout this period fierce public debates raged around prostitution, infanticide, working-class sexuality, female reproduction and domesticity. Drawing on works by Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and the Brontes, Matus explores the dialogue between literary and other discourses of sexuality. Unstable bodies will be an essential reference work for students and scholars working in Victorian literary and cultural studies, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1952-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Matus, Jill L.
- Dewey number
- 306.7/082
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HQ29
- LC item number
- .M44 1995
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
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- 1996 D-621
- HQ 29
- NLM item number
- M445u 1995
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women
- Sexual ethics
- Women and literature
- Sex in literature
- Motherhood
- Sexual Behavior
- Women
- Ethics
- Literature, Modern
- Mothers
- United Kingdom
- Seksualiteit
- Moederschap
- Victoriaanse tijd
- Femmes
- Morale sexuelle
- Femmes et littérature
- Sexualité dans la littérature
- Maternité
- Label
- Unstable bodies : Victorian representations of sexuality and maternity, Jill L. Matus
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-267) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Unstable bodies -- Ch. 1. Sexual slippage and approximation in Victorian biomedical discourse. Sex as a continuum. Nature and culture. The sexual instincts. The politics of instability -- Ch. 2. The making of the moral mother: working class sexuality in Mary Barton -- Ch. 3. Confession, secrecy and exhibition. Agnes Grey and the 'animal side of life'. Passionlessness and prostitution in Ruth. Looking at Cleopatra: the exhibition and expression of desire in Villette -- Ch. 4. Maternal deviance. Wet-nurses, infanticide and the discourse of motherhood. 'The unnaturalness of her crime': maternal instinct in Adam Bede. Sorrow on the Sea: The business of maternity. Madness and badness: Lady Audley's Secret -- Ch. 5. From hysteria to maternity: Saint Teresa and the Madonna in Middlemarch
- Control code
- 30919385
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 280 pages
- Isbn
- 9780719043482
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 94022957
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (WaOLN)1313103
- Label
- Unstable bodies : Victorian representations of sexuality and maternity, Jill L. Matus
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-267) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Unstable bodies -- Ch. 1. Sexual slippage and approximation in Victorian biomedical discourse. Sex as a continuum. Nature and culture. The sexual instincts. The politics of instability -- Ch. 2. The making of the moral mother: working class sexuality in Mary Barton -- Ch. 3. Confession, secrecy and exhibition. Agnes Grey and the 'animal side of life'. Passionlessness and prostitution in Ruth. Looking at Cleopatra: the exhibition and expression of desire in Villette -- Ch. 4. Maternal deviance. Wet-nurses, infanticide and the discourse of motherhood. 'The unnaturalness of her crime': maternal instinct in Adam Bede. Sorrow on the Sea: The business of maternity. Madness and badness: Lady Audley's Secret -- Ch. 5. From hysteria to maternity: Saint Teresa and the Madonna in Middlemarch
- Control code
- 30919385
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 280 pages
- Isbn
- 9780719043482
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 94022957
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (WaOLN)1313103
Subject
- Femmes -- Grande-Bretagne -- Comportement sexuel | Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Femmes et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- History
- Literature, Modern -- history
- Maternité -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Moederschap
- Morale sexuelle -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Motherhood -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Mothers -- history
- Seksualiteit
- Ethics -- history
- Sexual Behavior -- history
- Sexual ethics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Sexualité dans la littérature
- United Kingdom
- Victoriaanse tijd
- Women -- Sexual behavior -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Women -- history
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Sex in literature
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