Questioning the (new) woman question : Rethinking and rereading late nineteenth-century antifeminist novels beyond binarised rhetoric
The nineteenth-century, or the Victorian period, is the age of the novel, and well known for its numerous influential authors, from Charles Dickens to Anthony Trollope. However, beyond the figures of George Eliot, the Brontë sisters, and Elizabeth Gaskell, not many female novelists of the age remain...
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| author | Wang, Esther Ying Jie |
| author2 | Tamara Silvia Wagner |
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| description | The nineteenth-century, or the Victorian period, is the age of the novel, and well known for its numerous influential authors, from Charles Dickens to Anthony Trollope. However, beyond the figures of George Eliot, the Brontë sisters, and Elizabeth Gaskell, not many female novelists of the age remain in literary consideration, or even popularly read. This paper focuses on redressing the marginalisation of the late nineteenth-century antifeminist women writers. By engaging with four selected aspects – domesticity, professional work, marriage, and religion – of conventional Victorian constructions of femininity, this paper argues the literary neglect of the conservative writers to be product of binarised and delimiting antifeminist/feminist assessments, and proves the selected novelists to have written beyond these politicized polarities, and thus, to be reconsidered for contemporary readership and reintroduction into the Victorian canon. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/154002019-12-10T14:42:26Z Questioning the (new) woman question : Rethinking and rereading late nineteenth-century antifeminist novels beyond binarised rhetoric Wang, Esther Ying Jie Tamara Silvia Wagner School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English The nineteenth-century, or the Victorian period, is the age of the novel, and well known for its numerous influential authors, from Charles Dickens to Anthony Trollope. However, beyond the figures of George Eliot, the Brontë sisters, and Elizabeth Gaskell, not many female novelists of the age remain in literary consideration, or even popularly read. This paper focuses on redressing the marginalisation of the late nineteenth-century antifeminist women writers. By engaging with four selected aspects – domesticity, professional work, marriage, and religion – of conventional Victorian constructions of femininity, this paper argues the literary neglect of the conservative writers to be product of binarised and delimiting antifeminist/feminist assessments, and proves the selected novelists to have written beyond these politicized polarities, and thus, to be reconsidered for contemporary readership and reintroduction into the Victorian canon. Bachelor of Arts 2009-04-28T03:22:03Z 2009-04-28T03:22:03Z 2009 2009 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15400 en Nanyang Technological University 34 p. application/pdf |
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| title_full | Questioning the (new) woman question : Rethinking and rereading late nineteenth-century antifeminist novels beyond binarised rhetoric |
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| title_short | Questioning the (new) woman question : Rethinking and rereading late nineteenth-century antifeminist novels beyond binarised rhetoric |
| title_sort | questioning the new woman question rethinking and rereading late nineteenth century antifeminist novels beyond binarised rhetoric |
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