Seeing together : friendship between the sexes in English writing from Mill to Woolf / Victor Luftig
1993, 1st edition. Stanford. : Stanford University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Slight foxing to the edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and strong. Item #410504
ISBN: 0804721688
Physical description; viii, 308 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-302) and index. Contents; Part I -- Contrary to Nature: Heterosexual "Friendship" in Mid-Victorian England (1) Problems of Representation in 1869; Mid-Victorian Phrasings; Wooing, Working, or Worshipping? John Stuart Mill's "Friendship;" Average Specimens: Women's Work and Women's Culture; Whatever the Means, Whatever the Way: Browning's The Ring and the Book.(2) George Eliot's Experiments in Idiom; Novels, Narrative, and Idiom; Marriage and the Sibling Bond: Eliot's Early Fictions; Priestly Passions; It Shall Be Better: Daniel Deronda's Concluding "Blank." Part II -- "Intensities and Avoidances": Male Novelists in an Awkward Age, 1895-1913. (3) Friendship and New Women; Late-Victorian Phrasings; Delicate Distinctions in The Woman Who Did; Shelleyans and AntiShelleyans; Good-Fellowship: Jude the Obscure; James's The Awkward Age and the Full Value of "Friendship" (4) Ways of Looking On: Friendship in Early Modernist Fiction; From Salon to the Uttermost Shore: Joseph Conrad and Agnes Tobin; Conrad's "Profound Sympathies;" Watching for the Vital Part: Lawrence, Work, and the "Usual Plan." Part III -- The War and Its Aftermath -- Friendship in Wartime; Wartime Phrasings: Scenes of Friendship; (5) Bloomsbury's Alternatives; The Best We Know: Woolf's Pastoral Vision in Night and Day. (6) Seeing Together: Woolf, Fry, and Friendship After the War; A Power of Attention: Sight and Sexuality in Mrs. Dalloway 190 A Little Triumphant: To the Lighthouse; Intensities: Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry. Conclusion: Seeing and the End of Friendship. Appendix: The Conrad/Poradowska Correspondence. Subjects; 1800-1999. English literature 19th century History and criticism. English literature 20th century History and criticism. Man-woman relationships in literature. Friendship in literature. Sex role in literature. Women in literature. Men in literature. Man-woman relationships in literature.
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