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Sexualizing Power in Naturalism

Theodore Dreiser and Frederick Philip Grove

Irene Gammel author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Calgary Press

Published:30th Dec '94

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Sexualizing Power In Naturalism sheds light on the function of female sexuality in a predominantly male genre: naturalist fiction. Gammel reveals that naturalism is frequently implicated in the very power structures it critiques. Reading European and North American naturalism through the lens of feminist and Foucaultian theories of power, Gammel argues that twentieth-century naturalism increasingly deconstructs itself in its depiction of sexuality, inevitably exposing the genre's internal ideological contradictions.

ISBN: 9781895176391

Dimensions: 223mm x 157mm x 15mm

Weight: 408g

272 pages