Novels of Innocence
Fictions of Loss
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16003444 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nancy K Miller (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 325-325 |
| Publication date | 1978-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Eighteenth-Century Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-2586 • E-ISSN: 1086-315X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2738196 |
| OpenAlex | W2325050057 |
| Language | EN |
Most novels, because they so wholly enlist our sympathies, seem to tend toward the subjective, the passive, the feminine. The subtitle of the Marquis de Sade's Justine, The Misfortunes of Virtue, might no less pertinently be attached to Henry James's Portrait of a Lady or Wings of the Dave. Such a loss, from a more detached, more dynamic, more masculine point of view, may be envisaged as a gain of experience
Art · Innocence · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |