Hall, Donald E. “Kingsley as Negotiator: Class/Gender
Discord/Discourse in Yeast and Alton Locke,” in Fixing Patriarchy:
Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists (New York: New York University
Press, 1996): 63-83.
Hall stresses the number and the range of scholars' polarized accounts of
Kingsley's views on gender issues. However, he argues that the many
diverse and conflicting opinions of this multi-faceted man are "emblematic
of an age and process of negotiation . . . . If we view Kingsley as an active
negotiator among parties holding radically divergent views, we fully expect
to find that his perspectives involve both give and take, both concession
and retrenchment" (66-67). He considers that the tensions and the diversity
of Kingsley's views mirror the complexities and confusion of the age.
He goes on to analyze in detail the class, gender, and feminist implications
in Yeast and Alton Locke.
Negotiator, Kingsley as
; Yeast
; Alton
Locke
; Females
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