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Connecting the cultural domains of religion, sex, and work, this book encompasses aspects of feminist theory, post-structuralist materialisms, Victorian thought, and two prominent 19th-century women's novels (Charlotte Brontë's Villette and George Eliot's Middlemarch)—to understand desire between women as a form of "spiritual materialism."

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Abbreviations Introduction Part I: 1. Bodies and God: post-structuralist feminists return to the fold of spiritual materialism 2. Divine loss: Irigaray's erotics of a feminine fracture 3. Lacking/labor Part II: 4. Recollecting Charlotte Bronte 5. Working for God autoerotically: approaching the bridegroom without a(r)rival in Bronte's Villette 6. Recognizing George Eliot 7. At home with desire: the domestication of St. Theresa in Eliot's Middlemarch Postlude Notes Index.

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/08/1994
      ISBN13: 9780804723121, 978-0804723121
      ISBN10: 0804723125
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Connecting the cultural domains of religion, sex, and work, this book encompasses aspects of feminist theory, post-structuralist materialisms, Victorian thought, and two prominent 19th-century women's novels (Charlotte Brontë's Villette and George Eliot's Middlemarch)—to understand desire between women as a form of "spiritual materialism."

      Table of Contents
      Abbreviations Introduction Part I: 1. Bodies and God: post-structuralist feminists return to the fold of spiritual materialism 2. Divine loss: Irigaray's erotics of a feminine fracture 3. Lacking/labor Part II: 4. Recollecting Charlotte Bronte 5. Working for God autoerotically: approaching the bridegroom without a(r)rival in Bronte's Villette 6. Recognizing George Eliot 7. At home with desire: the domestication of St. Theresa in Eliot's Middlemarch Postlude Notes Index.

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