Feminism, Aesthetics and Subjectivity: Women and Culture in Early Twentieth Century British Literature

Aesthetics and subjectivity have been linked ever since the subject considered itself to be at the height of its powers -aesthetics acting as a supplement to bridge the gap tat the bourgeois practices created between subject and object, man and nature, individual and society. Feminism was born struggling against Victorian partriarchy, and its -scene of instruction- extended until the moment when the subject began to be radically questioned (in philosophy, psychology, linguistics, art and literature) at the same tme that the individual identities fo men and women were experiencing an ongoing metamorphosis as a resut of the appearance of new social identities.

The essays contained in this book examine these issues from different critical and theoretical perspecrives -such as deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and cultural materialism-, all of which are positioned within a feminist emancipatory project. The contributors deal with writers who coincided with the -scene of instruction- of feminism: the moent when the feminst movement responded to crucial historical changes by articulating energies, empowering voices, producing discourse. The objects of analysis include canonical texts and non canonical ones, the margins fo canonical texts and marginal artistic activities of canonical writers.