A feminist analysis of Victorian culture, as portrayed in 10 of Dickens' works, as a hierarchy of greed, appetite, and sexuality in which women and lower-class men starve so that wealthy men may gorge. The author argues that even when class and gender are fictional constructions, they shape real people's lives in complex and coercive ways. In Victo
| ISBN: | 9780809319534 |
| Publication date: | 29th November 1994 |
| Author: | Gail Turley Houston |
| Publisher: | Southern Illinois University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 237 pages |
| Genres: |
Gender studies: women and girls Anthologies: general |
A feminist analysis of Victorian culture, as portrayed in 10 of Dickens' works, as a hierarchy of greed, appetite, and sexuality in which women and lower-class men starve so that wealthy men may gorge. The author argues that even when class and gender are fictional constructions, they shape real people's lives in complex and coercive ways.
Consuming Fictions features in the following genres: Gender studies: women and girls, Anthologies: general
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Consuming Fictions was written by Gail Turley Houston and published by Southern Illinois University Press
Consuming Fictions has 237 pages
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