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Book SynopsisSubjects on Display explores a recurrent figure at the heart of many nineteenth-century English novels: the retiring, self-effacing woman who is conspicuous for her inconspicuousness.
Trade ReviewThis book is highly original, making a very significant contribution to the fields of Victorian and feminist, as well as psychoanalytic and historicist literary studies.
By treating the gaze both in its historical and its psychoanalytic dimensions, Newman offers a satisfying corrective to studies which follow a single track into visual culture.
“Beth Newman’s Subjects on Display is worth the time of anyone interested in the precise implications of cultural display in either its psychoanalytic or social dimensions, or in the nineteenth century, or in British fiction generally. But it is in its primary purview of Victorian Femininity that this good book is at its best. Subjects on Display is well worth the time of anyone interested in women from whatever gendered perspective.” * Studies in the Novel *
