Outside the Pale : : Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer / / Elsie B. Michie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Michie, Elsie B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Reading Women Writing
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

Elsie B. Michie here provides insightful readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, writers who confronted definitions of femininity which denied them full participation in literary culture. Exploring a series of abhorrent images, Michie traces the links between the Victorian definition of femininity and other forms of cultural exclusion such as race and class distinctions.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Excluded from Discourse and Imprisoned within It": The Position of the Nineteenth-Century Woman Writer -- 1. "Matters That Appertain to the Imagination": Accounting for Production in Frankenstein -- 2. "The Yahoo, Not the Demon": Heathcliff, Rochester, and the Simianization of the Irish -- 3. "My Story as My Own Property": Gaskell, Dickens, and the Rhetoric of Prostitution -- 4. "Those That Will Not Work": Prostitutes, Property, Gaskell, and Dickens -- 5. "High Art and Science Always Require the Whole Man": Culture and Menstruation in Middlemarch -- Conclusion: Products, Simians, Prostitutes, and Menstruating Women: What Do They Have in Common? -- Works Cited -- Index