Download or read book Feminine Subjects in Masculine Fiction written by M. Miller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1870 and 1910 male authors were actively engaged with imagining new possibilities for women, at the same time as the central female figure continued to function as a troubling and unreachable object of aesthetic desire. This book examines these inscrutable female characters who were the ground on which fiction reinvented itself as Art.