Gender, the New Woman, and the Monster

Gender, the New Woman, and the Monster
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 116
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ISBN-10 : 9783030304768
ISBN-13 : 3030304760
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Book Synopsis Gender, the New Woman, and the Monster by : Elizabeth D. Macaluso

Download or read book Gender, the New Woman, and the Monster written by Elizabeth D. Macaluso and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book views late Victorian femininity, the New Woman, and gender through literary representations of the figure of the monster, an appendage to the New Woman. The monster, an aberrant occurrence, performs Brecht’s “alienation effect,” making strange the world that she inhabits, thereby drawing veiled conclusions about the New Woman and gender at the end of the fin-de-siècle. The monster reveals that New Women loved one another complexly, not just as “friend” or “lover,” but both “friend” and “lover.” The monster, like the fin-de-siècle British populace, mocked the New Woman’s modernity. She was paradoxically viewed as a threat to society and as a role model for women to follow. The tragic suicides of “monstrous” New Women of color suggest that many fin-de-siècle authors, especially female authors, thought that these women should be included in society, not banished to its limits. This book, the first on the relationship between the figure of the monster and the New Woman, argues that there is hidden complexity to the New Woman. Her sexuality was complicated and could move between categories of sexuality and friendship for late Victorian women, and the way that the fin-de-siècle populace viewed her was just as multifarious. Further, the narratives of her tragedies ironically became narratives that advocated for her survival.


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