Concepts of "Female Inversion" and the "New Woman" in Rhoda Broughton’s "Dear Faustina" (1897)

  • Published in 1897, Rhoda Broughton’s fin de siècle novel "Dear Faustina" took an active part in the discursive production of two cultural figures: the New Woman and the Female Invert. Employing those identity constructs to negotiate conservative anxieties about social change, while at the same time commenting on a range of alternatives to Victorian middle-class lifestyle, the novel is clearly rooted in the discourses of transition that characterised the fin de siècle....

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Author:Simone Hennig
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-275336
Referee:Susanne Scholz, Daniel Dornhofer
Document Type:magisterthesis
Language:English
Year of Completion:2012
Year of first Publication:2012
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Granting Institution:Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
Release Date:2012/11/12
Note:
Abschlussarbeit zur Erlangung der Magistra Artium im Fachbereich 10 der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Institut für England- und Amerikastudien. Einreichungsdatum: 1. Februar 2012.
HeBIS-PPN:335261108
Institutes:Neuere Philologien / Neuere Philologien
Dewey Decimal Classification:8 Literatur / 82 Englische, altenglische Literaturen / 820 Englische, altenglische Literaturen
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht