The Daughters Dilemma
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With deference, therefore, to an impressive body of work, I confess to having difficulty with Cohen's rigorous and superexplanatory use of family systems theory in The Daughter's Dilemma. On the one hand, she makes necessary and interesting connections between the evolution of the family and the novel in the nineteenth century. She focusses on problematic issues in the one that are enacted in the other; her particular choice of texts and her focus on family relationships in those texts elaborate her discussion of family systems theory.
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Her connection in each case between text and author's family experience seems to me more dubious. At best, Cohen is intellectually rigorous; her readings and observations give intense satisfaction as the logic of her analyses "works.
And her discussion of the texts themselves, while always interesting, frequently provokes in this reader at least a desire for freedom, for flexibility, for doubt. Describing literature as a tool of social criticism, Cohen combines social history of the daughter's role in the family in England with the history of the form of the novel itself from Clarissa in to The Awkward Age in From open to closed to fragmentary, family and novel-form have evolved in parallel fashion and Cohen identifies the 74Victorian Review daughter, the ideal woman, mediator for her father's combined roles in the world and in the family, as the site both of family stress and of family change.
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Cohen begins with the given of the incest-taboo as described by Levi-Strauss: This organizing principle becomes complicated by familysystems theory according to which the original dyad of mother and father triangulates for stability with the daughter as the ideal regulator and in fiction at least the modulator of male identity. In this capacity, she becomes a mediating consciousness and is defined not only externally as object but also internally as subject. She argues further that the father-daughter dyad is the pivotal structure by which the nuclear family and the domestic novel were able to define themselves as closed systems.
Drawing on recent work in literary and feminist criticism, anthropology, history, and psychoanalysis, as well as family systems theory, Cohen seeks to critique the limitations of these theoretical models even as she employs them to illuminate the texts under discussion. The study's approach leads to insights about the contemporary family and about the present state of literature and literary criticism.
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Cohen concludes by suggesting that the modern period marked the demise of an ideology favoring closed systems. The result has been both a nostalgia for those systems and a redefinition of experience and relationship as open and subject to endless interpretation.
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Such an ideological reformulation helps explain the present insistence by literary theorists on the inescapability of the text and the "reality" of representation.