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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"new woman"”.
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Fear and Fascination: A Study of Thomas Hardy and the New Woman
… works of Thomas Hardy note the evolution of the New Woman, particularly in his novels. From the accepting and submissive Cythera Graye in his first book to the questioning and defiant Sue Bridehead in his last written novel, Hardy documented the growth of the independent woman, as well as her …
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Feminist fiction and fictional feminism: Sarah Grand and the new woman novel
… and cultural context for the study of the New Woman fiction. Later chapters explore Grand's interruptions of the marriage plot with narratives of female psychology and desire, with challenges to masculinist narrative authority, with multiple plots, with feminist reworkings of other …
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"Nothing New Under the Sun": Woolf and Joyce, the New Woman and the New Man
… and writer to these past fictions, introduce new possibilities of meaning, and thus alter the trajectory of social narratives. The figures of the New Woman and New Man in these threshold texts serve as allegories of the struggle of the modernist writer to break from the tyrannies of the …
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Undermining The Angelic Restrictions Of First-Wave Feminism: What The New Woman Did, Didn't, And Wouldn't Do
… an intertextual reading of Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did (1895), Victoria Cross's The Woman Who Didn't (1895), and Lucas Cleeve's The Woman Who Wouldn't (1895) in order to historically and culturally contextualize these popular New Woman novels in social-purity feminism, the marriage debate, …
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Anne Brontë's New Women: Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as Precursors of New Woman Fiction
… feminist type that the Victorians called the “New Woman;” yet, both novels contain characteristics of New Woman fiction. By considering how Brontë's novels foreshadow New Woman fiction, the reader of these novels can re-enact the “gentlest” Brontë as an influential feminist whose ideology …
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"When Love is Born in a Cage Not of lts Own Building ": The New Woman and Fiction of Kate Chopin
<p>This project explores the New Woman as developed and defined through the literature of Kate Chopin.</p>
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Female Detectives, Female Criminals: An Examination Of Crime, Modernity And The New Woman In Early French And American Crime Films In The Us During The 1910s
… the similar and divergent reactions to the New Woman as a product of modernity in the cultures of two major powers in the global economy and global film industry, France and the US, and it aims to understand the greater implications that the female detective and female criminal represented …
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Regional and Female National Selves in the Fiction of Postconfederation Canadian Women Writers, 1867-1900
… a more conservative but still Canadian ideal woman, follows a crossing trajectory of Old to New World and back; the second, developing either a progressive ideal or new woman, both distinctly Canadian, follows the opposite trajectory. The more conservative heroines act as recuperative and …
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Fashioning Women Under Totalitarian Regimes: "New Women" of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia
… early twentieth-century debates on the so-called Woman Question and the New Woman and were culturally specific. I map the evolution of the Woman Question and the New Woman in the decades directly preceding and following the Nazi and Bolshevik seizure of power, defining changing standards of …
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Envisioning Women Writers: Female Authorship and the Cultures of Publishing and Translation in Early 20th Century Japan
… of fictional works, literary journals, and newspapers from the turn of the century to the 1930s, I explore how various women embraced, subverted, and negotiated the gendered identity of the "woman writer" (joryû sakka) while creating their own spheres of literary production through women's …
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Susan Glaspell: feminist playwright
Susan Glaspell, a "new woman" of the second decade of the twentieth century in America, left a valuable legacy for the feminists who would follow her. Her life and writings are examples of what women are capable of doing when given the opportunity. In both she sought to prove that women could …
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Wandering Women: Sexual and Social Stigma in the Mid-Victorian Novel
… particularly 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 …
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"What shall we use to fill the empty spaces?": Displacement in Frank Norris's McTeague
… control. In positioning Trina McTeague as a woman unable to identify with either of the two major feminine ideologies of the day, the Angel in the House and the New Woman, this paper examines her identity as conflicted because of this lack of autonomy. Her failure to identify herself leads to …
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Willa Cather: Male Roles and Self-Definition in My Antonia, The Professor's House, and "Neighbor Rosicky"
… dependent upon them, and gender roles shifted as woman began to occupy territory that was traditionally held by men. The “New Woman" entered the workforce, and refused to accept traditional female gender conventions. In response to the “New Woman," Theodore Roosevelt and other leading males sought …
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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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The Lost Artist: Biographical Fiction and the Identity of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
… depiction of Zelda, one that is embedded in the New Woman identity of the 1920s. The resulting novel gives autonomy to Zelda and aids in reshaping her image for a modern 21<sup>st</sup> century audience.</p>
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That Rotten Richness': Old Maids and Reproductive Anxiety In U.S. Southern Fiction, 1923-1946
… organizing figure in the discourse on southern womanhood. My research extends and complicates that critical model. If the belle signifies an idealized and mythic South, the old maid evokes a range of threats to it, including illicit (re)production and barrenness. She becomes the symbol of modern …
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Like a Moth to the Flame: Modernity and Mary Wigman 1886-1973
… the establishment of the Mary Wigman School in New York City in 1931. Her former pupil, Hanya Holm, brought Wigmans technique west and translated and adapted Wigman's ideas to the North American temperament. Wigman's work also can be viewed as an assimilation of many of the major artistic …
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The Ideal of Lucretia in Augustan Latin Poetry
… costume. Ovid appears to suggest a possible “new” woman, neither matrona nor meretrix. A return to the ideal is seen in Vergil’s Aeneid. Here, after civil upheaval, Dido with her gold weaving is presented as the opposite of the desired Roman matrona who, like Lucretia, is associated with plain …
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