The Seductive Fallacy provides a literary focus for feminist critiques of fascist gender and sexuality. It explores two fascist and three anti-fascist novelsWyndham Lewis The Revenge for Love (1937), Olive Hawks What Hope for Green Street? (1945), Virginia Woolfs The Years (1937), Phyllis Bottomes The Mortal Storm (1938) and The Lifeline (1946)that illuminate British domestic fictions rhetorical range in the prolonged crisis of liberal hegemony after World War I. Across political purposes and a range of readerships and styles, they illuminate the genres efficacy to theorize modern womens social, political, and cultural agency. In particular, the dissertations critical readings of these novels explore fascisms emergence within liberal democracies.
Juxtaposing Lewis and Hawks with literature from the archives of the British Union of Fascists (BUF), the first two chapters stress fascisms production and consumption of political fantasies prevalent throughout the British novels humanist tradition, especially notions of womens agency inscribed in the traditions of nineteenth- and twentieth-century domestic literature. The last two chapters highlight and evaluate Bottomes and Woolfs divergent critical representations of fascist domesticity. The dissertation concludes that Woolfs anti-humanist feminist domestic fiction better enables readers to perceive the irreducible modernity of fascism.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PITT/oai:PITTETD:etd-04192004-120703 |
| Date | 27 June 2004 |
| Creators | Suh, Judy |
| Contributors | Barbara Green, Paul A. Bove, Eric O. Clarke, Marcia Landy |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh |
| Source Sets | University of Pittsburgh |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-04192004-120703/ |
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