Curious Subjects: Women and the Trials of Realism by Hilary M. Schor

Curious Subjects: Women and the Trials of Realism

Hilary M. Schor

288 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative slow-paced
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Curious Subjects: Women and the Trials of Realism by Hilary M. Schor is a absorbing read for anyone fascinated by the complexities of women's agency, curiosity, and self-discovery in 19th-century literature, who will be captivated by Schor's insightful analysis of canonical novels and the ways in which they shape our understanding of female identity and empowerment.

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While nineteenth-century literary scholars have long been interested in women's agency in the context of their legal status as objects, Curious Subjects makes the striking and original argument that what we find at the intersection between women s...

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