The Enigmatic Subject: She-Dick or Lady Detective

[alice malice]

Gender Trouble in Twelfth Night

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theatre_journal/summary/v049/49.2charles.html

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:26 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
> Back to Part One of Ch. 36 where , after Christmas Carol is revised,
> an allusion to Shakespeare's 12th Night,
>
> "it's a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction" brings us
> round to Daytona's allusion to "All About Eve"
>
> https://www.britannica.com/shakespeare/article-313694
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> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:18 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Chapter 36 has six parts. In the first part, I quoted from it the
>> previous post, Maxine dreams of A Christmas Carol and the story, as it
>> does every year, "slops over into work" (395).  The Chapter is wrapped
>> around Christmas and slops over into the job. In Part 4 Daytona drops
>> in a very big allusion: "All About Eve"
>>
>> Thematic content
>>
>> Critics and academics have delineated various themes in the film.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_About_Eve
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 10:44 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> In Bleeding Edge, a book by Thomas Pynchon, author of several novels,
>>> in Chapter 36 of the novel, 394 pages into it...and, yes, I
>>> know...most of you haven't read this far and don't plan to, but there
>>> in Chapter 36 is Maxine, a secularized Jewish New Yorker, doing what
>>> all good New Yorkers do during the Holiday Season, watching the Tube
>>> and wishing she could be watching a revised version of an old classic,
>>> a revisionist Christmas Carol...and since I know you're no gonna go
>>> get the book:
>>>
>>> where Scroodge is the good guy for a change. Victorian capitalism  has
>>> hustled him over the years for his soul, turning him from an innocent
>>> entry-level kid into a mean old man who treats everybody like shit,
>>> none worse than his apparently honest bookeeper Bob Cratchit, who in
>>> reality has been systematically skimming off of poor haunted and
>>> vulnerable Scrooge, cooking the books, and running off periodically to
>>> Paris to squander what he's stolen on champagne, gambling, and cancan
>>> girls, leaving Tiny Tim and the family in London to starve. At the
>>> end, instead of Bob being the instrument of Scrooge's redemption, it
>>> turns out to be by way of Scrooge that Bob is ransomed back to the
>>> side of humanity again.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Trouble with She-Dicks: Private Eyes and Public Women in "The
>>> Adventures of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective"   Victorian Literature
>>> and Culture Vol. 33, No. 1, 2005, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
>>>
>>> As one of the earliest professional female detectives in English
>>> literary history, Brooke's career was marked by conflicts with
>>> territorial male officers and the ever-present pressure to keep her
>>> detective work “inside the house.” Emerging at a historical moment
>>> when understandings of women, criminality, and law enforcement were
>>> rapidly changing in Britain, Pirkis's stories offer an interpretation
>>> of these intersecting cultural shifts that is surprisingly different
>>> from her contemporaries. In a decade rife with scientific
>>> interrogation into the nature of criminality, such as in the work of
>>> Havelock Ellis and Francis Galton, detective fiction of the 1890s
>>> tended to mimic scientific discourse in its representations of
>>> criminals. The Brooke stories, however, challenge such conceptions of
>>> deviance and reveal the poverty of their underlying understandings of
>>> crime as well as gender.
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