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Sexualizing Power in Naturalism: Theodore Dreiser and Frederick Philip Grove
By Irene Gammel
272 pages
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- University of Calgary Press
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- Calgary, Alta.
- Publication year:
- 1994
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Synopsis
This book 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 ....
This book 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. The book makes a special contribution to Canadian studies.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction 1
- Naturalism and Foucault 13
- Naturalism's History of Sexuality 15
- Liberating" Sexuality 27
- Power and the Docile Body 41
- Dreiser, Naturalism and the New Woman 57
- Sister Carrie: Sexualizing the Docile Body 59
- Female Sexuality and the Naturalist Crisis: "Emanuela" 83
- Deconstructing the Raturalist Prostitute 101
- Fanny Essler: A Sexual Picaresque 103
- Fanny's Sexual Confession 119
- Fanny Essler in (a) Search for America 133
- Eroticizing Bourgeois Power 151
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction 1
- Naturalism and Foucault 13
- Naturalism's History of Sexuality 15
- Liberating" Sexuality 27
- Power and the Docile Body 41
- Dreiser, Naturalism and the New Woman 57
- Sister Carrie: Sexualizing the Docile Body 59
- Female Sexuality and the Naturalist Crisis: "Emanuela" 83
- Deconstructing the Raturalist Prostitute 101
- Fanny Essler: A Sexual Picaresque 103
- Fanny's Sexual Confession 119
- Fanny Essler in (a) Search for America 133
- Eroticizing Bourgeois Power 151
- The Male Body of Power: the Titan 153
- Naturalism's Specula(riza)tion: the "Genius" 173
- Grove's Sexualizing of Patriarchal Power 185
- Sovereign Power, Bio-Power and the "Inevitable Form" in the Master of the Mill 187
- The Father's Seduction and the Daughter's Rebellion 207
- Conclusion 233
- Bibliography 241
- Index 257