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....
Author: | Simone Hennig |
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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): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |