Fictional Minds and Female Sexuality: The Consciousness Scene from Pamela to Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Why have all the major novelistic innovations in representing consciousness been achieved through depicting the minds of female characters? This essay argues that eighteenth-century conduct books provided the cultural impetus and structural frame for a particular subjectivity--the self-examining her...

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Publicado en:ELH Vol. 86; no. 1; pp. 161 - 189
Autor principal: Dawson, Paul
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: Johns Hopkins University Press Spring2019
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