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Gender and the Intersubjective Sublime in Faulkner, Forster, Lawrence, and Woolf
By Erin Speese
Copyright 2018
176 Pages
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Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Exploring how the modern novel's complex depictions of parenthood restructure traditional conceptions of the Romantic sublime, Erin K. Johns Speese shows how William Faulkner, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf use related strategies to rewrite the traditional sublime as an intersubjective experience. Speese shows that this reframing depends on the recognition of social... Read more
1. Introduction
2. A Novel Feeling: Aesthetics of Emotion and the Modern Novel
3. Mater Sacer: Addie as Sublime Object in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying
4. Only Disconnect: Ruth Wilcox, Death, and the Sublime Object in Howards End
5. Transcending the Rainbow: The Possibility of Sublime Intersubjectivity in D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow
6. "What is R?": Mrs. Ramsay as Feminism’s Sublime Object in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
Epilogue: Žižek’s Mom: Theory, Feminism, and the Mother
Biography
Erin K. Johns Speese is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Duquesne University, USA.
