Reflecting on The Bell Jar (first published in 1991) acknowledges the repressive post-war regime of social hygiene. Pat Macpherson’s reading takes into account the fundamental... Læs mere
Pat Macpherson’s Reflecting on Jane Eyre (first published in 1989) shows how the novel itself can be the territory for women’s exploration of a morality of desire and power, alternative to the material and sexual double-standard of middle-class men.
Reflecting on The Bell Jar (first published in 1991) acknowledges the repressive post-war regime of social hygiene. Pat Macpherson’s reading takes into account the fundamental... Læs mere
Pat Macpherson’s Reflecting on Jane Eyre (first published in 1989) shows how the novel itself can be the territory for women’s exploration of a morality of desire and power, alternative to the material and sexual double-standard of middle-class men.