Abstract
This article focuses on Agnes Owens whose work is examined in the light of Michel Foucault’s essay “Lives of Insignificant Men”, and Pierre Rosanvallon’s Parliament of the Invisible. It tackles the idea that Owens portrays what Foucault calls “insignificant lives”, with a particular emphasis on working or working-class women and on what Owens sees as poverty “in [the] minds”, to show that her fiction is political in a way that is not openly militant.
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Pittin-Hedon, Marie-Odile
(2025)
"Agnes Owens and the Parliament of Insignificant Lives,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 50:
Iss.
1, 65–77.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol50/iss1/7