From a "Child of Light" to a "Woman of Genius": Sarah Grand's The Beth Book as the New Woman Bildungsroman
The New Woman fiction, popular in the last decade of the 19th century, contested the traditional notions of gender roles and participated in the public debates on women’s rights. The protagonists of the New Woman novels refused to conform to the submissive and self-abnegating Victorian ideal of fem...
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The New Woman fiction, popular in the last decade of the 19th century, contested the traditional notions of gender roles and participated in the public debates on women’s rights. The protagonists of the New Woman novels refused to conform to the submissive and self-abnegating Victorian ideal of femininity. The article discusses the ways in which Sarah Grand, a prominent New Woman novelist and social activist, uses and transforms both the elements of her own life and the Bildungsroman conventions in her 1897 novel The Beth Book to create a heroine whose growth and development result in her personal independence and her active public engagement in women’s issues. Cast in a variety of social roles, Beth Maclure reclaims her agency and becomes an embodiment of the New Woman.
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| spelling | doaj.art-5a0ea398c29a4ca9a44ae7d12a3531bf2023-02-17T16:28:33ZengUniversidad de ZaragozaMiscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies1137-63682386-48342021-12-016410.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20216054From a "Child of Light" to a "Woman of Genius": Sarah Grand's The Beth Book as the New Woman BildungsromanIlona Dobosiewicz0University of Opole The New Woman fiction, popular in the last decade of the 19th century, contested the traditional notions of gender roles and participated in the public debates on women’s rights. The protagonists of the New Woman novels refused to conform to the submissive and self-abnegating Victorian ideal of femininity. The article discusses the ways in which Sarah Grand, a prominent New Woman novelist and social activist, uses and transforms both the elements of her own life and the Bildungsroman conventions in her 1897 novel The Beth Book to create a heroine whose growth and development result in her personal independence and her active public engagement in women’s issues. Cast in a variety of social roles, Beth Maclure reclaims her agency and becomes an embodiment of the New Woman. https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/article/view/6054New Woman novelsSarah GrandThe Beth BookBildungsroman |
| spellingShingle | Ilona Dobosiewicz From a "Child of Light" to a "Woman of Genius": Sarah Grand's The Beth Book as the New Woman Bildungsroman Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies New Woman novels Sarah Grand The Beth Book Bildungsroman |
| title | From a "Child of Light" to a "Woman of Genius": Sarah Grand's The Beth Book as the New Woman Bildungsroman |
| title_full | From a "Child of Light" to a "Woman of Genius": Sarah Grand's The Beth Book as the New Woman Bildungsroman |
| title_fullStr | From a "Child of Light" to a "Woman of Genius": Sarah Grand's The Beth Book as the New Woman Bildungsroman |
| title_full_unstemmed | From a "Child of Light" to a "Woman of Genius": Sarah Grand's The Beth Book as the New Woman Bildungsroman |
| title_short | From a "Child of Light" to a "Woman of Genius": Sarah Grand's The Beth Book as the New Woman Bildungsroman |
| title_sort | from a child of light to a woman of genius sarah grand s the beth book as the new woman bildungsroman |
| topic | New Woman novels Sarah Grand The Beth Book Bildungsroman |
| url | https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/article/view/6054 |
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