Sisters in Literature

A unique study of how novels by Lawrence, Forster and George Eliot can be read as rewritings of Sophocles's Antigone : each is presented as a socially and sexually involving argument between two sisters. The author provides an interconnected case-study where each text works on the hidden meanings of the other. Female sexuality, expressed through the language of duality (vulnerability, frustration, submission and destructivity, consummation and rebirth), becomes an ideal vehicle for crossing the barriers between sexes and between societies, as between the texts themselves.

Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction The Common Doom Reading Antigone Middlemarch : From Heroic Legend to Emotional History Howards End : From Letters to a Connecting Vision Women in Love (1): The Disruptive Style, Its Images and Arguments Women in Love (2): The Language Between Notes Bibliography Index