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Patriarchal desire and Victorian discourse : a Lacanian reading of Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels
- Title
- Patriarchal desire and Victorian discourse : a Lacanian reading of Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels / Priscilla L. Walton.
- Author
- Walton, Priscilla L.
- Publication
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1995.
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- Description
- 180 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- While there have been studies examining Trollope from a feminist perspective, very little work has taken into consideration the questions raised by contemporary critical theory. Patriarchal Desire and Victorian Discourse is unique in that it links feminist analysis with psychoanalytic theory, and brings both to bear on an examination of Trollope's writings. The feminist Lacanian analysis employed by Priscilla L. Walton offers a new perspective on the dominant Victorian cultural dynamic.
- She explains how the works serve as complex and ultimately double-edged exemplars of patriarchal desire and masculinist discourse.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- 1. The Politics of Desire in An Autobiography -- 2. Subject(ed) Desire in Can You Forgive Her? -- 3. Desire, Control, and Suppression in Phineas Finn -- 4. Desire and Displacement in The Eustace Diamonds -- 5. Subjectivity and Masquerade in Phineas Redux -- 6. Ego Drives and Difference in The Prime Minister -- 7. Desire and Disenfranchisement in The Duke's Children -- Conclusion: Discourse and Desire.
- ISBN
- 0802006558
- LCCN
- cn 95930026
- OCLC
- ocm31779435
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries