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oapen-20.500.12657-620682024-03-27T14:14:44Z Women and Romance Langbauer, Laurie Literature: history and criticism Gender studies, gender groups thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues in feminist debate, in particular the relations of feminist to the poststructuralist theories of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault. In highlighting questions of gender in this way, Women and Romance contributes to a major debate between skeptical and materialist points of view among poststructuralist critics. 2023-03-29T15:49:44Z 2023-03-29T15:49:44Z 1990 book ONIX_20230329_9781501723063_54 9781501723063 9780801424212 9781501723070 9781501728006 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62068 eng Reading Women Writing application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781501723063.pdf 9781501723070.epub http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801424212/women-and-romance Cornell University Press Cornell University Press 10.7298/nq3t-5h79 10.7298/nq3t-5h79 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 9781501723063 9780801424212 9781501723070 9781501728006 Cornell University Press 288 Ithaca [...] Open Book Program National Endowment for the Humanities NEH open access
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According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues in feminist debate, in particular the relations of feminist to the poststructuralist theories of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault. In highlighting questions of gender in this way, Women and Romance contributes to a major debate between skeptical and materialist points of view among poststructuralist critics.
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