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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Fallen woman"”.
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The Fallen Woman: An Exploration of the Voiceless Women in Victorian England through Three Plays of Oscar Wilde
… against in the Victorian era. Through Salomé, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband I will prove the Christological myth that each play adopts and establish Wilde’s ability to make the religion “transformational.” Wilde’s productions of characters like Salomé, Mrs. Allonby, Mrs. …
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The Victorian Woman in Mary Barton and Mill on the Floss: What Causes the Angel to Fall
The role of the fallen woman intrigued Victorian society. Like much literature, this character reflected the time period she was a part of, but what signals did popular authors provide to show that a character was fallen? And did those authors argue against modern mindsets that a fallen woman could …
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A vindication of fallen women : Victorian women writers reconceiving gender.
In my dissertation, “A Vindication of Fallen Women: Victorian Women Writers Reconceiving Gender,” I argue that nineteenth-century women writers rework Mary Wollstonecraft’s pioneering feminist text A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) to generate a new ideology of gender. Using feminist and …
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FEMALE NEUROSIS : A PSYCHOANALYTIC READING OF WOMEN IN HARDY'S NOVELS
… who 'deviate' from the ideal Victorian woman, Is sensitive to the psychological predicament experienced by these women. In Hardy's novels these women attain a significance which redefines them as circumstancial products of the female freedom movement, rather than irrational, or mentally …
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Towards National Identity: Addiction, Subjectivity, and American Literary Culture
… narrative forms like the bildungsroman, the fallen woman narrative, and the first-person confessional. Ultimately, addiction has left as many indelible marks on American literary history as it has on American culture and American identity.
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'All Other Faculties Must Be Silent': Victorian Motherhood and the Divided Female Self
… the intrinsic incompatibility between a woman's identity as purveyor of cultural values to her children, and her physical, biological involvement in bearing and raising children. Chapter three focuses on East Lynne, Ellen Wood's 1861 sensation novel of maternal excesses, arguing that the …
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Problems of representation and representativeness in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction
… this work examines the production of the sign 'woman' in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction. I locate Ngugi's semiotics of the feminine in the conflicting discursive formations of two historical junctures of Kenyan resistance to colonial rule (the female circumcision debate and the Mau Mau insurgency) …
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The representation of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women as heroines in the novels of four Jewish-American women writers
… – intuitive self-knowledge, Aishes Chayil – the woman of valour, Sotah – the fallen woman and Baalat Teshuva – the repentant woman. Some academic work does exist on the four named writers but it is limited in both quantity and scope and there is no work extant on the four novels and the …
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THE GENEALOGY OF THE PROSTITUTE: DEFINING AND DISCIPLINING PROSTITUTION THROUGH JOURNALISM IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND, 1809-1886
… the 1800s, "prostitute" meant a brazen harlot, a fallen woman, a factory worker, a capable capitalist, and an underage child. Each definition signifies a particular set of medical, social, scientific and religious assumptions that informed political aims and disciplinary measures. Additionally, I …
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Wandering Women: Sexual and Social Stigma in the Mid-Victorian Novel
… in regard to the development of the New Woman. I propose that there is an intermediary character type that exists between Coventry Patmore's "angel of the house" and the New Woman of the fin de siecle. I call this character the Wandering Woman. This new archetypal character adheres to the …
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Garden Doors: Tempting The Virtuous Heroine In Clarissa And Betsy Thoughtless
… flight from the garden as representative of the fallen woman in Richardson's novel, and the triumphantly virtuous in Haywood's. Clarissa's fall out of the garden proves a previous sin punished, while Betsy's flight from the garden proves her virtue. Since both Clarissa and Betsy Thoughtless, and …
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Rhetoric of argument in Elizabeth Gaskell's "Mary Barton" and "Ruth"
… and restoration, and the Biblical triad--woman-Pharisee-Christ, which relates to Ruth-Bradshaw-Benson. Gaskell argues that society's moral laws, particularly the double standard, are based on false assumptions about women, and she argues that society's treatment of the fallen woman and her …
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Kasia the Melodist. And the Making of a Byzantine Hymnographer
… known as Lent. Her sticheron idiomelon, ‘The Fallen Woman,’ shall receive special attention, as it is her most known work. This study will then draw various conclusions based upon its findings, detailing a far more developed Kassia than has been done previously in other studies. By explaining …