{"product_id":"all-her-faculties-the-representation-of-the-female-mind-in-the-twentieth-century-english-novel-9783034317658","title":"All Her Faculties: The Representation of the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll Her Faculties \u003c\/i\u003efocuses on the perpetuation and reflection in literature of particular representations of the female mind that are entrenched in conservative notions of womanhood. The study highlights literature’s incontrovertible power to create myth - the myth of woman as body, not mind - through social practice as well as discourse. This is accentuated in the divergent yet related roles women as scholars play in a number of fictions that have entered, to a greater or lesser degree, the cultural consciousness of the twentieth century. What emerges is that the female scholar does not portray a ‘normal’ intellect but a transgressive one, based on a cultural understanding of rationality as male-inflected. \u003cbr\u003e New readings of novels by H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Dorothy L. Sayers, Kingsley Amis, David Lodge and A. S. Byatt reveal that the female mind, implicated in her outward appearance or inward psychology, is depicted as distorted by scholarship. The female scholar is shown to lack \u003ci\u003eethos\u003c\/i\u003e, a moral aspect in relation to action and voice, and the plots of the novels under discussion seem to thrive on this strategic marginalisation of her subjective intellectual being. This study offers original readings of twentieth-century texts through the lens of the female intellect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: The Female Mind – Walking the Tightrope - The Female Mind Emerging in H. G. Wells’s \u003ci\u003eAnn Veronica\u003c\/i\u003e (1909) – Beyond the Arc Light - The Female Mind at Large in D. H. Lawrence’s \u003ci\u003eThe Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e (1915) – Sheltered and Secluded - The Female Mind Confined in Dorothy L. Sayers’s \u003ci\u003eGaudy Night\u003c\/i\u003e (1935) – Insanity in the Academy - The Female Mind Unhinged in Kingsley Amis’s \u003ci\u003eLucky Jim \u003c\/i\u003e(1954) – Separate Spheres - The Female Mind Retired in David Lodge’s, \u003ci\u003eNice Work \u003c\/i\u003e(1988) – Cycles of Continuance - The Female Mind Incarnate in A. S. Byatt’s \u003ci\u003ePossession\u003c\/i\u003e (1990) – All Her Faculties - The Female Mind as Spectre.","brand":"Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043640639831,"sku":"9783034317658","price":77.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783034317658.jpg?v=1750958981","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/all-her-faculties-the-representation-of-the-female-mind-in-the-twentieth-century-english-novel-9783034317658","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}