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Victoria's feminist Legacy how nineteenth-century women imagined the queen /Ulrich, Melanie Renee. MacKay, Carol Hanbery, January 2005 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2005. / Supervisor: Carol H. MacKay. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Women writing women : gender and representation in British 'Golden Age' crime fictionHoffman, Megan January 2012 (has links)
In this thesis, I examine representations of women and gender in British ‘Golden Age' crime fiction by writers including Margery Allingham, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey and Patricia Wentworth. I argue that portrayals of women in these narratives are ambivalent, both advocating a modern, active model of femininity, while also displaying with their resolutions an emphasis on domesticity and on maintaining a heteronormative order, and that this ambivalence provides a means to deal with anxieties about women's place in society. This thesis is divided thematically, beginning with a chapter on historical context which provides an overview of the period's key social tensions. Chapter II explores depictions of women who do not conform to the heteronormative order, such as spinsters, lesbians and ‘fallen' women. Chapter III looks at the ways in which the courtships and marriages of detective couples attempt to negotiate the ideal of companionate marriage and the pressures of a ‘cult of domesticity'. Chapter IV considers the ways in which depictions of women in schools, universities and the workplace are used to explore the tensions between an expanding role in the public sphere and the demand to inhabit traditionally domestic roles. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the image of female victims' and female killers' bodies and the ways in which such depictions can be seen to expose issues of gender, class and identity. Through its examination of a wide variety of texts and writers in the period 1920 to the late 1940s, this thesis investigates the ambivalent nature of modes of femininity depicted in Golden Age crime fiction written by women, and argues that seemingly conservative resolutions are often attempts to provide a ‘modern-yet-safe' solution to the conflicts raised in the texts.
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On the contrary : counter-narratives of British women travellers, 1832-1885Anderson, Carol January 2009 (has links)
This study examines five counter-narratives written by British women between 1832 and 1885 who wrote in a non-conformist or negative manner about their travel experiences in foreign countries. In considering a small number of women travellers who took an alternative approach to narrating their experiences, a key objective of this study is to consider the reasons for the way in which the women writing counter-narratives positioned their writing. After considering how the quasi-scientific concept of domestic womanhood attempted to restrict Victorian women in general, and in particular influenced how women travellers were viewed, an exploration of counter-narratives questions whether the sustained interest in more positive travel accounts reflects a simplified contemporary, if not feminist, reading of Victorian women. An examination follows of the influence of discourse criticism, alternative interpretations of geographical space, and the presence of intertextuality in travel writing. The chapters are then arranged chronologically, with each counter-narrative being analysed as emanating from the range of discourses that were in conflict during the period. The writers form a varied group, travelling and living in five different countries, with a range of contradictory voices. Susannah Moodie and Emily Innes are outspoken in their criticism of British government policy for Canada and the Malay States respectively; Isabella Fane in India and Emmeline Lott in Egypt are disdainful of foreign practices which were otherwise considered fascinating on account of their exoticism; Frances Elliot differentiates her writing by opposing the ubiquitous influence of guidebooks for European travel. Thus each account records an aspect of political or cultural opposition to established discourses circulating at the time, as the women challenge the 'grand narratives' of foreign travel in different ways. Because such accounts may be challenged by literature of the period, the study positions the women in the context of their contemporaries, and thus each chapter examines the counter-narrative alongside another account by a female writer who travelled or lived in a similar area during the same era. Moreover, before examining the range of discursive complexities and tensions that emerge in each case study, the writers are positioned in their geographical locations and historical moments so that the texts are read against the cultural background to which the women were originally responding. The marginalisation of such counter-narratives has led to gaps in our understanding of travel writing from the period: where accounts once coexisted they are separated, and positive accounts are privileged over negative ones. It is this discontinuity of knowledge that the study will address in order to create a truer picture of the diversity of travel writing at the time.
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Folklore-naming and folklore-narrating in British women's fiction, 1750-1880Wakefield, Sarah Rebecca 28 August 2008 (has links)
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Victoria's feminist Legacy: how nineteenth-century women imagined the queenUlrich, Melanie Renee 28 August 2008 (has links)
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Bearing men : a cultural history of motherhood from the cycle plays to ShakespeareOlchowy Rozeboom, Gloria 11 1900 (has links)
The scholars who assert that motherhood acquires new favor in the early modem period and
the critics who contend that male subjectivity and patriarchy in Shakespeare's plays depend on the
repudiation of the mother both base their perspectives on an understanding of motherhood which is
too monolithic. To contribute to a more historically specific understanding, I draw on the work of
numerous historians and examine humanist and reformist writings, the Corpus Christi cycles, and
two Shakespearean plays.
I find that the medieval "calculative" and "incarnational" versions of motherhood enabled
women to exercise considerable control over their sexuality and fertility and clout in their families
and communities, and that the Corpus Christi cycles served as a mechanism to extend multiple
facets of these versions of the maternal. While the early modern period inherited the expansive,
medieval versions of motherhood, the "new," restrictive form of motherhood advocated by the
humanists and reformers helped to devalue the inherited forms, promote a greater spiritual, physical,
and economic dependence of women on men, and enlarge the scope of the paternal at the expense
of the maternal.
My examination of Macbeth demonstrates that the play employs Scottish history so as to
heighten attention to the risks produced by Elizabeth I's and James I's adaptations of the competing
versions of motherhood available in the early modern period. It suggests that James's adaptation is
especially conducive to instability, since it generates a contradiction in the hereditary system of
political power-the simultaneous need for and exclusion of women/mothers. This contradiction
coupled with the diminution of the feminine/maternal makes it more likely that murder will be
construed as an alternative means of being "born" into the succession. Whereas Macbeth shifts
from constructions more aligned with incarnational and calculative mothers to constructions more
affiliated with new mothers, Coriolanus appears nearly throughout to be informed by the contest over
motherhood. By exploring this contest, I add to the understanding of the economic, political, familial,
and theatrical aspects of the play, and make it possible to suggest that Coriolanus demonstrates
peace is achieved when a version of motherhood resembling the expansive, medieval forms is
embraced.
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Fallen angels : female wrongdoing in Victorian novelsBarnhill, Gretchen Huey, University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science January 2005 (has links)
In the Victorian novel, gender-based social norms dictated appropriate behaviour. Female wrongdoing was not only judged according to the law, but also according to the idealized conception of womanhood. It was this implicit cultural measure, and how far the woman contravened the feminine norms of society, that defined her criminal act rather than the act itself or the injury her act inflicted. When a woman deviated from the Victorian construction of the ideal woman, she was stigmatized and labelled. The fallen woman was viewed as a moral menance, a contagion. Foreign women who committed crimes were judged for their 'lack of Englishness.' Insanity evolved into not only a medical explanation for bizarre behaviour, but also a legal explanation for criminal behaviour. Finally, the habitual woman criminal and the infanticidal mother were seen as unnatural. Regardless of the crime committed, female criminals were ostracized and removed from 'respectable' English society. / vii, 163 leaves ; 29 cm.
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Empire girls : white female protagonists, the Bildungsroman and challenges to narrative / Mandy Dyson.Treagus, Mandy January 1998 (has links)
Bibliography (leaves 281-294). / vi, 294 leaves ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / by Mandy Dyson / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of English, 1998?
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Bearing men : a cultural history of motherhood from the cycle plays to ShakespeareOlchowy Rozeboom, Gloria 11 1900 (has links)
The scholars who assert that motherhood acquires new favor in the early modem period and
the critics who contend that male subjectivity and patriarchy in Shakespeare's plays depend on the
repudiation of the mother both base their perspectives on an understanding of motherhood which is
too monolithic. To contribute to a more historically specific understanding, I draw on the work of
numerous historians and examine humanist and reformist writings, the Corpus Christi cycles, and
two Shakespearean plays.
I find that the medieval "calculative" and "incarnational" versions of motherhood enabled
women to exercise considerable control over their sexuality and fertility and clout in their families
and communities, and that the Corpus Christi cycles served as a mechanism to extend multiple
facets of these versions of the maternal. While the early modern period inherited the expansive,
medieval versions of motherhood, the "new," restrictive form of motherhood advocated by the
humanists and reformers helped to devalue the inherited forms, promote a greater spiritual, physical,
and economic dependence of women on men, and enlarge the scope of the paternal at the expense
of the maternal.
My examination of Macbeth demonstrates that the play employs Scottish history so as to
heighten attention to the risks produced by Elizabeth I's and James I's adaptations of the competing
versions of motherhood available in the early modern period. It suggests that James's adaptation is
especially conducive to instability, since it generates a contradiction in the hereditary system of
political power-the simultaneous need for and exclusion of women/mothers. This contradiction
coupled with the diminution of the feminine/maternal makes it more likely that murder will be
construed as an alternative means of being "born" into the succession. Whereas Macbeth shifts
from constructions more aligned with incarnational and calculative mothers to constructions more
affiliated with new mothers, Coriolanus appears nearly throughout to be informed by the contest over
motherhood. By exploring this contest, I add to the understanding of the economic, political, familial,
and theatrical aspects of the play, and make it possible to suggest that Coriolanus demonstrates
peace is achieved when a version of motherhood resembling the expansive, medieval forms is
embraced. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate
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Exploding the lie : 'angelic womanhood' in selected works by Harriet Martineau, Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte and George EliotDu Plessis, Sandra Elizabeth 11 1900 (has links)
Each of these novelists, in her own way, presents a critique of the idealised
woman of the nineteenth-century. My aim in this dissertation is to reveal the
degree to which each is successful in her mission to 'explode the lie' of angelic
womanhood, and, in so doing, free her long-incarcerated Victorian sisters.
It took great courage and fortitude to utter at times a lone dissenting voice; and
female writers of the present owe a great debt of gratitude to their pioneering
Victorian counterparts, who cleared the way for them to take up the banner and
continue the march towards female liberation from a stifling ideology. / English Studies / M.A. (English)
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