Gender, the New Woman, and the Monster

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Macaluso, Elizabeth D. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern-19th century.; British literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; British and Irish Literature.

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, th...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.