Linda M. Shires (essay date winter 1991)
SOURCE: Shires, Linda M. “Narrative, Gender, and Power in Far from the Madding Crowd.” In Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 24, no. 2 (winter 1991): 162–77.
[In the following essay, Shires deconstructs the signifiers of gender and power in the novel, claiming that previous feminist critics have not sufficiently examined the contradictions and complexities in Hardy's portrayal of a nineteenth-century woman's place.]
“Are you a woman?”
“The woman—for...
Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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