Nobody's Angels by Elizabeth Langland
Langland argues that the middle-class wife had a more complex and important function than has previously been recognized: she mastered skills that enabled her to support a rigid class system while unknowingly setting the stage for a feminist revolution.Langland's account is deeply provocative, and it is elaborated with great intellectual integrity... Her readings are astute, and her dexterity at balancing strong claims about gender and class against her theoretical fidelity to the demands of writing a discontinuous, non-traditional account of cultural politics is impressive and instructive. Nobody's Angels is, without doubt, essential reading for students of nineteenth-century culture, and it will significantly alter the ways we reconcile the ideologies of public and private spheres.
-- John Kucich * Novel: A Forum on Fiction *
ELIZABETH ABEL is Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley, and editor of Writing and Sexual Difference (1982). MARIANNE HIRSCH is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, and author of Beyond the Single Vision: Henry James, Michel Butor, Uwe Johnson (1981). ELIZABETH LANGLAND is Associate Professor of English, Converse College, and editor of A Feminist Perspective in the Academy: The Difference It Makes (1983).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801482205 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801482208 |
| Title | Nobody's Angels |
| Author | Elizabeth Langland |
| Series | Reading Women Writing |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
| Year published | 1995-04-05 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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