"Ideology" today holds a place in literary criticism much like "ironic tension" in the era of New Criticism and "patriarchal power" in the great surge of Feminist criticism beginning in the 1970s. By showing how its subject eludes the -isms through which she might be read, Franc…
"Frances Burney and Narrative Prior to Ideology works between Burney's Journals and Letters and her fiction more thoroughly than any study of her in the past twenty-five years. By doing so, it offers significant reinterpretations of Burney's four novels: Evelina, Cecilia, Camill…
"Frances Burney and Narrative Prior to Ideology works between Burney's Journals and Letters and her fiction more thoroughly than any study of her in the past twenty-five years. By doing so, it offers significant reinterpretations of Burney's four novels: Evelina, Cecilia, Camill…
Image and ideology in modern/postmodern discourse
"How should we understand Victorian cultural conflict? The Victorians were fiercely disputatious, divided between multiple views of the political, religious and social issues that motivated their changing aspirations. Such debates are a fundamental aspect of the literary culture…