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The Split Subject of Narration in Elizabeth Gaskell´s First Person Fiction
Anna Koustinoudi
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The Split Subject of Narration in Elizabeth Gaskell’s First-Person Fiction analyzes a number of Elizabeth Gaskell's first-person works through a post-modern perspective employing such theoretical frameworks as psychoanalytic theory, narratology, and gender theory. It attempts to explore the problematics of Victorian subjectivity, bringing into focus the ways in which both her realistic and Gothic texts undercut and interrogate post-Romantic assumptions about an autonomous and coherent speaking and/or narrating subject. The essential argument of the book is that the mid-nineteenth-century narrating “I”, in its communal, voyeuristic, and Gothic manifestations emerges as painfully divided, lacking, unstable, ailing, and hence unreliable, pre-figuring, at ... Read more
The Split Subject of Narration in Elizabeth Gaskell’s First-Person Fiction analyzes a number of Elizabeth Gaskell's first-person works through a post-modern perspective employing such theoretical frameworks as psychoanalytic theory, narratology, and gender theory. It attempts to explore the problematics of Victorian subjectivity, bringing into focus the ways in which both her realistic and Gothic texts undercut and interrogate post-Romantic assumptions about an autonomous and coherent speaking and/or narrating subject. The essential argument of the book is that the mid-nineteenth-century narrating “I”, in its communal, voyeuristic, and Gothic manifestations emerges as painfully divided, lacking, unstable, ailing, and hence unreliable, pre-figuring, at ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Lexington Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
178
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739166086
SKU
V9780739166086
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Ref
99-1
About Anna Koustinoudi
Anna Koustinoudi is an Adjunct Faculty Member at Aristotle University (Greece). Her research interests and publications focus on nineteenth-century prose, especially on Victorian women’s novelistic production, as well as on gender theory in combination with psychoanalytic and narrative theory.
Reviews for The Split Subject of Narration in Elizabeth Gaskell´s First Person Fiction
Elizabeth Gaskell and Jacques Lacan are brought together here in a sophisticated and original exploration of the psychoanalytic implications of Gaskell's narrative strategies. Through a close reading of Gaskell's first-person fiction, Koustinoudi throws light on the gaps and dislocations that lurk within these deceptively simple narratives, revealing Gaskell to have had as much in common with her modernist successors as ... Read more