Papers presented at a conference held at Liverpool University in Oct. 1989.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Exceeding romanticism / Philip Shaw -- Is Emily Bronte a woman? : femininity, feminism and the paranoid critical subject / Emma Francis -- 'What language can utter the feeling' : identity in the poetry of Emily Bronte / Kathryn Burlinson -- Epiphany and subjectivity in Charlotte Bronte's Villette / Susan Watkins -- 'They suck us dry' : a study of late nineteenth-century projections of vampiric women / Sian Macfie -- Wallace Stevens : an exemplary subject / Carolyn Masel -- The ideological eye-witness : an examination of the eye-witness in two works by George Orwell / Peter Marks -- 'Pretending to be me' : Larkin versus 'Larkin' / Peter MacDonald Smith -- Language, knowledge, and the stylistics of science fiction / Peter Stockwell
Narrative voice and focalization : the presentation of the different selves in John Fowles' The Collector / Dominique Costa -- Feminism, language or existentialism : the search for the self in the works of Clarice Lispector / Barbara Mathie -- Portrait of the subject as a young man : the construction of masculinity ironized in 'male' fiction / Lynda Broughton -- The spaced-out subject : Bachelard and Perec / Jamie Brassett -- The death of orality and the rise of the literate 'subject' / David Wilson