Too Much
Hardback
How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today
Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, Too Much explores how culture corsets women's bodies, souls, and sexualities - and how we might finally undo the strings.
Written in the tradition of Shrill, Dead Girls, Sex Object and other frank books about the female gaze, Too Much encourages women to reconsider the beauty of their excesses - emotional, physical, and spiritual. Rachel Vorona Cote braids cultural criticism, theory, and storytelling together in her exploration of how culture grinds away our bodies, souls, and sexualities, forcing us into smaller lives than we desire. An erstwhile Victorian scholar, she sees many parallels between that era's fixation on women's 'hysterical' behavior and our modern policing of the same; in the space of her writing, you're as likely to encounter Jane Eyre and Lizzie Bennet as you are Britney Spears and Lana Del Rey. This book will tell the story of how women, from then and now, have learned to draw power from their reservoirs of feeling, all that makes us 'too much'.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9780751580525
- Author: Rachel Vorona Cote
- Pub date: 23.04.20
- RRP: $65.00
- Format: Hardback
Author
Rachel Vorona Cote
Rachel Vorona Cote writes for publications like the New Republic, Longreads, Pitchfork, Catapult, Hazlitt, Rolling Stone, the Poetry Foundation, Buzzfeed, and Literary Hub. She was also a contributor at Jezebel.
She has a BA from the College of William and Mary and an MA in Literature from the George Washington University. She is ABD at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she studied Victorian literature. She lives in Takoma Park, Maryland.