Regime of the Brother

<p><em>The Regime of the Brother</em> is one of the first attempts to challenge modernity on its own terms. Using the work of Lacan, Kristeva and Freud, Juliet MacCannell confronts the failure of modernity to bring about the social equality promised by the Enlightenment. On the verge of its destruction, the Patriarchy has reshaped itself into a new, and often more oppressive regime: that of the Brother.<br> Examining a range of literary and social texts - from Rousseau's <em>Confessions</em> to Richardson's <em>Clarissa</em> and from Stendhal's <em>De L'Amour</em> to James's <em>What Maisie Knew</em> and Jean Rhys's <em>Wide Sargasso Sea</em> - MacCannell illustrates a history of the suppression of women, revealing the potential for a specifically feminine alternative.</p> Part I: History and Theory of the Regime of the Brother 1. The Primal Scene of Modernity 2. Modernity as the Abscence of the Other Part II: Readings in the Regime of the Brother 3. Egomimesis 4. Feminine Eros: From the Bourgeois State to the Nuclear State Part III: The End(s) of Love in the Western World 5. The End(s) of Love in the Western World 6. Reconstructing the Desire of the Mother 7. After the New Regime