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Hall, Emily Bancroft.

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Domesticating emotions: Technologies of affect in Victorian literature and culture.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Domesticating emotions: Technologies of affect in Victorian literature and culture./
Author:	Hall, Emily Bancroft.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2000,
Description:	196 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 62-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International62-08A.
Subject:	British and Irish literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9983770
ISBN:	9780599901339

Domesticating emotions: Technologies of affect in Victorian literature and culture.
Hall, Emily Bancroft.

Domesticating emotions: Technologies of affect in Victorian literature and culture. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2000 - 196 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 62-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2000.

This study explores how emotions in Victorian culture were socially produced and mapped onto female bodies in order to define the boundaries of proper feminine feeling, behavior and identity. To make this argument, each chapter traces the way a particular technology of emotion (case history, photography, moral management, conduct guides, and melodrama) works to engender and authenticate a specific taxonomy of female affect. I use technology of emotion to describe a set of scientific and social practices that produce interior affective states as legible on and within the body. Analyzing a series of Victorian novels and autobiographical narratives that engage the question of female affective expression, Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, Ellen Price Wood's St. Martin's Eve, Wilkie Collins's Armadale, Sheridan Le Fanu's The Rose and the Key, Caroline Norton's English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century and Rosina Bulwer Lytton's A Blighted Life reveals how they uncover the contradictions and tensions inherent in the technologies' constructions of emotion. Through their representations of female anger, these novels and narratives thus challenge the terms of the cultural opposition between the excessively emotional (or unemotive) madwoman and the feeling middle-class woman and, more significantly, challenge the very meaning of such identities. My project thus has two goals: to analyze the complex ways in which Victorian medical and social technologies made emotion readable on female bodies, and to explore how Victorian fictions of female emotional transgression and madness functioned to imaginatively re-work the terms of the technologies. Revealing the gaps and contradictions inherent in Victorian constructions of affect, this dissertation offers a way to view emotional women in fiction in terms of how emotion was being produced and what it signified at a particular cultural moment. Examining how models of affective identity develop, shift, and even contradict one another helps inform not only our understandings of how gender operated in Victorian society but also how it continues to operate today.

ISBN: 9780599901339Subjects--Topical Terms:

3433225
British and Irish literature.
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Culture

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