Flaubert Writing the Masculine |
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| Author:
| Orr, Mary |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-815969-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2000 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $284.55AUD $354.00 |
Book Description:
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In Flaubert: Writing the Masculine Mary Orr offers a new approach to Flaubert's fiction and to the field of gender studies. Close readings of his six major works build towards a much wider picture, in which definitions of the masculine emerge from the complex context of nineteenth-century France and from current debates within gender studies. Various received ideas about Flaubert, his novels, patriarchy, realism, and the primacy of gender over sex arere-evaluated to show a writer aware...
More DescriptionIn Flaubert: Writing the Masculine Mary Orr offers a new approach to Flaubert's fiction and to the field of gender studies. Close readings of his six major works build towards a much wider picture, in which definitions of the masculine emerge from the complex context of nineteenth-century France and from current debates within gender studies. Various received ideas about Flaubert, his novels, patriarchy, realism, and the primacy of gender over sex arere-evaluated to show a writer aware of the logic and contradictions of male power.