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Patriarchal Desire and Victorian Discourse
A Lacanian Reading of Anthony Trollope's Palliser Novel
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Priscilla Walton
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English
Published/Copyright:
1995
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The feminist Lacanian analysis employed by Priscilla L. Walton offers a new perspective on the dominant Victorian cultural dynamic. She explains how Trollope's works serve as complex and ultimately double-edged exemplars of patriarchal desire and masculinist discourse.
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Walton Priscilla :
Priscilla L. Walton is a professor in the Department of English at Carleton University.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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1. The Politics of Desire in An Autobiography
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2. Subject(ed) Desire in Can You Forgive Her?
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3. Desire, Control, and Suppression in Phineas Finn
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4. Desire and Displacement in The Eustace Diamonds
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5. Subjectivity and Masquerade in Phineas Redux
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6. Ego Drives and Difference in The Prime Minister
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7. Desire and Disenfranchisement in The Duke's Children
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Conclusion: Discourse and Desire
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Notes
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Selected List of Works Consulted
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Index
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December 15, 1995
eBook ISBN:
9781487574482
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192
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College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
