E-raamat: Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion

This collection of essays opens with a strong introduction by Womack on the meanings of subversion... Subversiveness seems to be a wide net in which critics are sometimes subversive; at other times authors are subversive or they invoke genres that are already assumed to be subversive. The collection addresses biographical enigmas surrounding the public and private identities of individual writersfor example, Helen Dickens and George Eliotand offers interpretations of major works by Charlotte Brontė, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, and Bram Stoker. Jeanette Shumaker contributes a cogent essay on the gender connotations of fallen ministers such as The Scarlet Letters Arthur Dimmesdale, and Womack extends critical interest in the literary impressionism of Heart of Darkness into a thought-provoking examination of ethics via Hans Jausss reception theory. Readers will likely appreciate Alexis Weedons efforts to link the cross-media business practices of early-20th-century publishing to the media convergence model of the 21st century... Summing Up: Recommended...Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *