Subversion from Within: Anne Bronte, Emily Bronte, and Mary Shelley's Gothic Feminism

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dc.contributor.authorKiester, Hannah
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-22T12:42:04Z
dc.date.available2020-09-22T12:42:04Z
dc.date.issued2020-04
dc.descriptionHonors Thesis Spring 2020en_US
dc.description.abstractLong before recognized feminist movements began, women were fighting the patriarchal structure of society with the aims of equality and recognition. Woman writers have had to fight to gain a standing with their male counterparts in the literary public eye. For centuries, many women could only achieve success in their contemporary circles by publishing their work under a male or gender-neutral pseudonym. One such woman, Charlotte Brontë, said in a letter to her editor that an early critic of Jane Eyre “praised the book if it were written by a man, and pronounced it ‘odious’ if the work of a woman” (Qtd in Margaret Smith 139). In addition to being considered inferior in everyday life, women were also depicted in literature as typically flat characters that fit into a regressive trope or patriarchal stereotype representing all women. Female characters were traditionally cast in one of three roles: the mother, the prostitute, or the divine, “pure” female muse. In particular, the Gothic genre is full of tropes that reflect a lesser view of women—tropes such as the fainting heroine, the mistreated female servant, and the brooding Gothic hero, who is often revealed to be an abuser. [...]en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11416/512
dc.publisherFlorida Southern Collegeen_US
dc.subjectBrontë, Anne, 1820-1849en_US
dc.subjectBrontë, Emily, 1818-1848en_US
dc.subjectShelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851en_US
dc.subjectGothic fiction (Literary genre), Englishen_US
dc.subjectFeminism and literatureen_US
dc.titleSubversion from Within: Anne Bronte, Emily Bronte, and Mary Shelley's Gothic Feminismen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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