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Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy

Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot

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  • © 1987

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  1. Deirdre David
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Thinking Women and Victorian Ideas

    1. Introduction: Thinking Women and Victorian Ideas

      • Deirdre David
      Pages 1-24

  3. Harriet Martineau: a Career of Auxiliary Usefulness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Textual Services

      • Deirdre David
      Pages 27-39

    3. Political Economy and Feminist Politics

      • Deirdre David
      Pages 40-57

    4. The Social Parent: Slavery, History, and Reform

      • Deirdre David
      Pages 58-73

    5. A Novel Liberty: Deerbrook

      • Deirdre David
      Pages 74-93

  4. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: ‘Art’s a service’

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. A Clerisy of Poets and the Softer Sex

      • Deirdre David
      Pages 97-113

    3. The Social Wound and the Poetics of Healing

      • Deirdre David
      Pages 114-127

    4. Defiled Text and Political Poetry

      • Deirdre David
      Pages 128-142

    5. Woman’s Art as Servant of Patriarchy: the Vision of Aurora Leigh

      • Deirdre David
      Pages 143-158

  5. George Eliot: the Authority of a Woman Intellectual

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. Iconic Sage

      • Deirdre David
      Pages 161-176

    3. Instructed Women and the Case of Romola

      • Deirdre David
      Pages 177-196

    4. Subversive Sexual Politics: Felix Holt, the Radical

      • Deirdre David
      Pages 197-208

    5. Maggie Tulliver’s Desire

      • Deirdre David
      Pages 209-224

    6. Afterword: ‘The Authority to Speak’

      • Deirdre David
      Pages 225-231

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 232-273
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Examines the works of three Victorian writers, looks at the ways they subverted and affirmed their society, and discusses women's higher education in nineteenth century England.

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