Exploding the lie : 'angelic womanhood' in selected works by Harriet Martineau, Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot

Description

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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1. Du Plessis, Sandra Elizabeth (1997) Exploding the lie : 'angelic womanhood' in selected works by Harriet Martineau, Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18635>
2. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18635

Tags

823.809352042

Women in literature

Sex role in literature

Feminism in literature

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/18635
Date	11 1900
Creators	Du Plessis, Sandra Elizabeth
Contributors	Batley, Karen Elizabeth
Source Sets	South African National ETD Portal
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Dissertation
Format	1 online resource (ii, 132 leaves)