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  title info:
    title: Gender, the New Woman, and the Monster
  name:
    name part: Macaluso, Elizabeth D.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 110 p. 2 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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. Elizabeth D. Macaluso teaches and tutors writing at Queensborough Community College, USA. She previously taught Victorian and British fin-de-siècle literatures and topics in rhetoric and composition at Binghamton University, USA. This is her first critical book on the late Victorian period. Macaluso is also a published poet, with poetry featured in VIA, Arba Sicula, The Paterson Literary Review, and the San Diego Poetry Annual. Her first volume of poetry, The Lighthouse, will be published by Guernica Editions. Macaluso has earned The Dr. Alfred Bendixen Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student in English and the Graduate St…
  table of contents: Chapter 1. Introduction - Gender, The New Woman, and the Monster -- Chapter 2. "I love you with all the moods and tenses of the verb:" Lucy and Mina's Love in Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Chapter 3. The Monstrous Power of Uncertainty: Social and Cultural Conflict in Richard Marsh's The Beetle -- Chapter 4. The Rise of Harriet Brandt: A Critique of the British Aristocracy in Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire -- Chapter 5. Conclusion.
  note: by Elizabeth D. Macaluso.
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-19th century
  subject:
    topic: British literature
  subject:
    topic: Nineteenth-Century Literature
  subject:
    topic: British and Irish Literature
  classification: PN760.5-769
  classification: 809.034
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783030304768
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30476-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 191018
    record change date: 20191029012512.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-30476-8