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Article: Other Women: The Writing of Class, Race, and Gender, 1832-1898.
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- Criticism
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
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The text/context approach to literature that has become a staple of cultural criticism frames Anita Levy's intelligent and informative study of Victorian discourses on the imbrication of class, race, and gender. Although the publisher's jacket places this book in the double category of "women's studies/literature," Other Women dislodges Victorian fiction as the textual zenith and instead inserts a reading of Wuthering Heights within a detailed account of nineteenth-century British texts of sociology, anthropology, and psychology. Levy argues that these Victorian discourses, including domestic fiction, produce a generic female person, an implicitly middle class-specific ...