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Seeing together : friendship between the sexes in English writing from Mill to Woolf
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Seeing together : friendship between the sexes in English writing from Mill to Woolf

Author: Victor Luftig
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©1993.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Victor Luftig
ISBN: 0804721688 9780804721684
OCLC Number: 27146498
Description: viii, 308 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Part I --
Contrary to Nature: Heterosexual "Friendship" in Mid-Victorian England (1) Problems of Representation in 1869; Mid-Victorian Phrasings; Wooing, Working, or Worshipping? John Stuart Mill's "Friendship;" Average Specimens: Women's Work and Women's Culture; Whatever the Means, Whatever the Way: Browning's The Ring and the Book.(2) George Eliot's Experiments in Idiom; Novels, Narrative, and Idiom; Marriage and the Sibling Bond: Eliot's Early Fictions; Priestly Passions; It Shall Be Better: Daniel Deronda's Concluding "Blank." Part II --
"Intensities and Avoidances": Male Novelists in an Awkward Age, 1895-1913. (3) Friendship and New Women; Late-Victorian Phrasings; Delicate Distinctions in The Woman Who Did; Shelleyans and AntiShelleyans; Good-Fellowship: Jude the Obscure; James's The Awkward Age and the Full Value of "Friendship" (4) Ways of Looking On: Friendship in Early Modernist Fiction; From Salon to the Uttermost Shore: Joseph Conrad and Agnes Tobin; Conrad's "Profound Sympathies;" Watching for the Vital Part: Lawrence, Work, and the "Usual Plan." Part III --
The War and Its Aftermath --
Friendship in Wartime; Wartime Phrasings: Scenes of Friendship; (5) Bloomsbury's Alternatives; The Best We Know: Woolf's Pastoral Vision in Night and Day. (6) Seeing Together: Woolf, Fry, and Friendship After the War; A Power of Attention: Sight and Sexuality in Mrs. Dalloway 190 A Little Triumphant: To the Lighthouse; Intensities: Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry. Conclusion: Seeing and the End of Friendship. Appendix: The Conrad/Poradowska Correspondence.
Responsibility: Victor Luftig.
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