Curious Subjects : Women and the Trials of Realism
ISBN: 9780199928095 | 0199928096
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/8/2013
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While nineteenth-century literary scholars have long been interested in women's agency in the context of their legal status as objects, Curious Subjects makes the striking and original argument that what we find at the intersection between women subjects (who choose and enter into contracts)and women objects (owned and defined by fathers, husbands, and the law) is curiosity. Women protagonists in the novel are always both curiosities: strange objects worthy of our interest and actors who are themselves actively curious-relentless askers of ques... MORE
Hilary M. Schor is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies and Law at the University of Southern California, where she codirects the USC Center for Law, History and Culture. She is the author of Dickens and the Daughter of the House (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and Scheherezade in the Marketplace: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Novel (OUP, 1992)
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