Domesticated Bachelors And Femininity In Victorian Novels

Author : Jennifer Beauvais
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786460366

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Domesticated Bachelors and Femininity in Victorian Novels by Jennifer Beauvais Pdf

Domestic issues, chastity, morality, marriage and love are concerns we typically associate with Victorian female characters. But what happens when men in Victorian novels begin to engage in this type of feminine discourse? While we are familiar with certain Victorian women seeking freedom by moving beyond the domestic sphere, there is an equally interesting movement by the domestic man into the private space through his performance of femininity. This book defines the domesticated bachelor, examines the effects of the blurring of boundaries between the public and private spheres, and traces the evolution of the public discourse on masculinity in novels such as Bronte's Shirley, Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This bachelor, along with his female counterpart, the New Woman, opens up for discussion new definitions of Victorian masculinity and gender boundaries and blurs the rigid distinction between the gendered spaces thought to be in place during the Victorian period.

Author : Jenni Calder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005299420

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Women and Marriage in Victorian Fiction by Jenni Calder Pdf

Author : June Sturrock
Publisher : English Literary Studies
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Domestic fiction, English
ISBN : UOM:39015038424555

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"Heaven and Home" by June Sturrock Pdf

Author : Monica Flegel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317564867

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Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture by Monica Flegel Pdf

Addressing the significance of the pet in the Victorian period, this book examines the role played by the domestic pet in delineating relations for each member of the "natural" family home. Flegel explores the pet in relation to the couple at the head of the house, to the children who make up the family’s dependents, and to the common familial "outcasts" who populate Victorian literature and culture: the orphan, the spinster, the bachelor, and the same-sex couple. Drawing upon both animal studies and queer theory, this study stresses the importance of the domestic pet in elucidating normative sexuality and (re)productivity within the familial home, and reveals how the family pet operates as a means of identifying aberrant, failed, or perverse familial and gender performances. The family pet, that is, was an important signifier in Victorian familial ideology of the individual family unit’s ability to support or threaten the health and morality of the nation in the Victorian period. Texts by authors such as Clara Balfour, Juliana Horatia Ewing, E. Burrows, Bessie Rayner Parkes, Anne Brontë, George Eliot, Frederick Marryat, and Charles Dickens speak to the centrality of the domestic pet to negotiations of gender, power, and sexuality within the home that both reify and challenge the imaginary structure known as the natural family in the Victorian period. This book highlights the possibilities for a familial elsewhere outside of normative and restrictive models of heterosexuality, reproduction, and the natural family, and will be of interest to those studying Victorian literature and culture, animal studies, queer studies, and beyond.

Author : Shirley Foster
Publisher : Barnes & Noble
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:49015000553165

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Victorian Women's Fiction by Shirley Foster Pdf

Critical interest in women's fiction has grown enormously in recent years, in particular focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinized contemporary assumptions about their own sex. Victorian Women's Fiction: Marriage, Freedom and the Individual develops this area of exploration, showing how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and the often more attractive alternative of single or professional life. In arguing that the tensions and dualities of their work represent the honest confrontation of their own ambivalence rather than attempted conformity to convention, it calls for a fresh look at patterns of imaginative representation in Victorian women's literature. - Jacket flap.

Author : Tim Dolin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015040130554

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Mistress of the House by Tim Dolin Pdf

This is a collection of essays on the theme of women and property in Victorian fiction. The work comments on texts such as Shirley, Cranford, Villette, The Moonstone, works by Thomas Hardy and Diana of the Crossways.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:680289524

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Between the Spheres by Anonim Pdf

"Between the Spheres: Male Characters and the Performance of Femininity in Four Victorian Novels, 1849-1886" defines the domesticated bachelor, examines the effects of the blurring of the boundaries between the public and private spheres, and traces the evolution of the public discourse on masculinity in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley, Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By identifying the domestic man as a recurrent figure in the second half of the nineteenth century, this dissertation proves how he comes to represent the uncertainty surrounding issues of gender, not only concerning women's roles, but also men's positions in society and the re-defining of masculinity. Just as there were women seeking freedom by moving beyond the domestic sphere, there were men seeking a similar liberty by moving from the public into the private sphere by performing femininity. This bachelor is equally significant to the New Woman of this period based on his tendency to open up for discussion new definitions of Victorian masculinity and gender boundaries. The domesticated man moves from the "masculinized" public sphere into the "feminized" private sphere, by engaging in feminine discourse including issues of domesticity, chastity, morality, marriage, and love. Drawing upon Jürgen Habermas's analysis of public and private spheres, this dissertation re-examines the roles of the spheres, their fluidity in the four works under consideration, and the fate of the domesticated male characters. The gendering of the spheres resulted in the search for new forms of masculinity; this new definition of maleness was extremely dependent on the status of women in the private sphere. The bachelor moves between the spheres without necessarily suffering consequences such as effeminacy and social estrangement, as opposed to "masculine" female characters that did suffer from social stigma resu.

Author : Galia Ofek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351904186

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Representations of Hair in Victorian Literature and Culture by Galia Ofek Pdf

Galia Ofek's wide-ranging study elucidates the historical, artistic, literary, and theoretical meanings of the Victorians' preoccupation with hair. Victorian writers and artists, Ofek argues, had a well-developed awareness of fetishism as an overinvestment of value in a specific body part and were fully cognizant of hair's symbolic resonance and its value as an object of commerce. In particular, they were increasingly alert to the symbolic significance of hairstyling. Among the writers and artists Ofek considers are Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant, Charles Darwin, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Eliza Lynn Linton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Herbert Spencer, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and Aubrey Beardsley. By examining fiction, poetry, anthropological and scientific works, newspaper reviews and advertisements, correspondence, jewellery, paintings, and cartoons, Ofek shows how changing patterns of power relations between women and patriarchy are rendered anew when viewed through the lens of Victorian hair codes and imagery during the second half of the nineteenth century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Feminism
ISBN : OSU:32435083124743

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New Books on Women and Feminism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cheri Lin Larsen Hoeckley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UCAL:$C135295

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Literary Ladies in Anomalous Positions by Cheri Lin Larsen Hoeckley Pdf

Author : Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1003 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : EAN:8596547720713

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Jane Eyre + Wuthering Heights (2 Unabridged Classics) by Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "Jane Eyre + Wuthering Heights (2 Unabridged Classics)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester. The loneliness and cruelty of Jane's childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. But after she falls in love with her sardonic employer, her discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a heart-wrenching choice. Ever since its publication in 1847, Jane Eyre has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic. It lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a woman's quest for self-respect. Born into a poor family and raised by an oppressive aunt, young Jane Eyre becomes the governess at Thornfield Manor to escape the confines of her life. There her fiery independence clashes with the brooding and mysterious nature of her employer, Mr. Rochester. But what begins as outright loathing slowly evolves into a passionate romance. When a terrible secret from Rochester's past threatens to tear the two apart, Jane must make an impossible choice: Should she follow her heart or walk away and lose her love forever? Considered by many to be Charlotte Brontë's masterpiece, Jane Eyre chronicles the passionate love between the independent and strong-willed orphan Jane Eyre and the dark, impassioned Mr. Rochester. Having endured a lonely and cruel childhood, orphan Jane Eyre, who is reared in the home of her heartless aunt prior to attending a boarding school with an equally torturous regime, is strengthened by these experiences.

Author : Elizabeth Langland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0389208663

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Anne Brontë by Elizabeth Langland Pdf

Presents electronic versions of works by English novelist Anne Bronte (1820-1849) as part of the Online Literature Library. Offers access to "Agnes Grey" and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall."

Author : Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton,Charles Edward Doble,James Sutherland Cotton,Charles Lewis Hind,William Teignmouth Shore,Alfred Bruce Douglas,Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett,Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Literature
ISBN : UOM:39015020093798

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Academy and Literature by Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton,Charles Edward Doble,James Sutherland Cotton,Charles Lewis Hind,William Teignmouth Shore,Alfred Bruce Douglas,Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett,Thomas William Hodgson Crosland Pdf

Author : Bradford Allen Booth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010587892

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The Trollopian by Bradford Allen Booth Pdf

Contains articles which focus on a broad spectrum of significant figures in 19th century British fiction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : English literature
ISBN : MINN:31951001249282M

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Victorian Periodicals Newsletter by Anonim Pdf