Susan David Bernstein is associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
"A richly interdisciplinary work on an important topic, a text from
which scholars interested in gender, power, and Victorian
domesticity will surely profit."--"Victorian Studies"
"This original and pertinent book brings insights of Foucault,
Lacan, historical research, deconstruction, and feminist theory to
bear on important questions about women and confession. . . .
Framed by a carefully articulated set of theoretical assumptions,
Bernstein's subtle readings of canonical ("Villette", "Daniel
Deronda", and "Tess") and noncanonical ("Lady Audley's Secret")
novels offer answers, albeit complex and contingent ones, to these
questions. Her analyses will change the way we read these texts,
not to mention the way we understand contemporary instances of
confessing women, from Susan Smith and Tonya Harding to the
feminist critics whose self-disclosures become the objects as well
as the subjects of their own writing."--Robyn R. Warhol, University
of Vermont
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