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Secondary Heroines in Nineteenth-Century British and American Novels

Autor Jennifer Camden
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 feb 2010
Taking up works by Samuel Richardson, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Walter Scott, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick, among others, Jennifer B. Camden examines the role of female characters who, while embodying the qualities associated with heroines, fail to achieve this status in the story. These "secondary heroines," often the friend or sister of the primary heroine, typically disappear from the action of the novel as the courtship plot progresses, only to return near the conclusion of the action with renewed demands on the reader's attention. Accounting for this persistent pattern, Camden suggests, reveals the cultural work performed by these unusual figures in the early history of the novel. Because she is often a far more vivid character than the heroine of the marriage plot, the secondary heroine inevitably engages the reader's interest in her plight. That the narrative apparently seeks to suppress her creates tension and points to the secondary heroine as a site of contested identity who represents an ideology of womanhood and nationhood at odds with the national ideals represented by the primary heroine, whom the reader is asked to embrace. In showing how the anxiety produced by these ideals is displaced onto the secondary heroine, Camden's study represents an important intervention into the ways in which early novels use character to further ideologies of race, class, sex, and gender.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780754666790
ISBN-10: 0754666794
Pagini: 190
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Jennifer Camden is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Indianapolis, USA.

Recenzii

'In both its meticulous readings and its thought-provoking emphasis on marginalised forms of femininity in British and American novels, this study upends any easy assumptions about female character’s ’minor’ roles. Camden’s work admirably engages the broad concerns of feminism, nationalism and the history of the novel, making it a useful resource for scholars of any and all of these fields.' Scottish Literary Review

Cuprins

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Secondary Heroine and the Origins of the Novel; Chapter 2 Scott and the Origins of Historical Romance; Chapter 3 Cooper's Man without a Cross: Wealth, Race, and Religion in The Pioneers and The Last of the Mohicans; Chapter 4 Magawisca's Missing Arm: Absence and Replacement in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie; Chapter 5 Conclusion: Why Does the Historical Romance Make Us Want What We Can't Have?;

Descriere

Taking up works by Samuel Richardson, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Walter Scott, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick, among others, Jennifer B. Camden examines the role of "secondary heroines" in early British and American novels. By showing that they are a site for the displaced anxieties produced by the national ideals proffered in the novel, Camden offers an important intervention into the ways in which early novels use character to further ideologies of race, class, sex, and gender.