The Submerged Plot and the Mother's Pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy
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- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
2 August 2018
Summary
In The Submerged Plot and the Mother’s Pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy, Kelly A. Marsh examines the familiar, overt plot of the motherless daughter growing into maturity and argues that it is accompanied by a covert plot. Marsh’s insightful analyses of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglophone novels reveal that these novels are far richer and more complexly layered than the overt plot alone suggests. According to Marsh, as the daughter approaches adulthood and marriage, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780814252611 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0814252613 |
| Author: | Kelly A. Marsh |
| Publisher: | Ohio State University Press |
| Imprint: | Ohio State University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 2 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Theory and Interpretation of Narrative |
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“Marsh’s argument–a discovery of the submerged daughter plot as a telling of the absent mother’s unnarratable plot of sexual pleasure–is a rhetorical story narrative theorists and scholars more generally of the Anglophone novel of the nineteenth century to the present will find compelling. In addition, scholars of women’s studies and feminist criticism will find the work important, as it enriches our understanding of how the novel explores the rhetorical construction of mother-daughter relations and a woman’s sexuality and pleasure.” –Kay Young, University of California, Santa Barbara
“The Submerged Plot and the Mother’s Pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy is a very significant rereading of the Victorian courtship novel and its twentieth-century heirs. It recenters the courtship novel on the absent mother and revalues the vilified mothers in more recent stories of injured and alienated daughters. Marsh’s study makes significant contributions to feminist literary criticism, to narrative theory, and to scholarship on the novel.” –Margaret Homans, Yale University
About The Author
Kelly A. Marsh
Kelly A. Marsh is Associate Professor of English at Mississippi State University.
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