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3–4). This is a reductive generalisation which leaves no place for the likes of either Lydia Gwilt or Gwendolyn Harleth, to name but two. DuPlessis’ analysis is important in that it highlights the troubled emergence of female agency within the romance plot, coincident with Collins: Narrative and Containment 33 new conceptions of the gendered social (legal, political) which characterise modernity. This social context of narrative, however, while tacitly acknowledged, finds little place in her analytical method, which remains firmly within textual structure in a manner emblematic of Modernism itself.
A remarkable number of serialised novels refused a stable resolution in marriage in any case. There is a complex relationship between context of use and 22 Feminine Subjects in Masculine Fiction stylistics which belies many persistent myths about the romance plot and ideologies of gender. One very useful thing about the group of authors examined here is that they bridge two stylistic eras normally treated as distinct. We may not think of Collins as the classic nineteenth-century realist, but we think of the period of his life as that which produced the classic novels of English realism.
The authors and their subjects also span the range of positions which might broadly be named middle class, from the aspirational lower-middle-class position of Gissing to the old New England haute bourgeois background of James and his female characters. As such they represent the reorganisation of imperial capital in this period, and of the reading public embedded in it. They share the location of all of these troubled and shifting relations of economics and consciousness in the female figure. The past two decades have produced a wealth of important studies of women writers in modernist circles and of the material history of a range of women at the fin de siècle period.