Appearing to Diminish: Female Development and the British Bildungsroman, 1750-1850Bucknell University Press, 1999 - 205 pages Through analyses of The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, The Female Quixote, Evelina. Emma, Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Eyre, this genre study argues that these protagonists construct themselves as subjects by manipulating the signs of their objectification. By learning how the male gaze functions in their society, heroines learn to manipulate their appearance and behavior in order to gain some control over the self they project for others. |
Table des matières
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Amatory Fiction as Precursor to the Bildungsroman | 42 |
Reacting to Romance and Building the Bildungsroman The Female Quixote and Betsy Thoughtless | 63 |
Evelina Appearing to be a Bildungsroman | 88 |
Seeing and Fit to be seen Emma Woodhouse and Elizabeth Bennet | 114 |
Jane Eyre and the SelfConstructed Heroine | 138 |
Growing Up After the Bildungsroman Tragic Paradigms | 162 |
Notes | 168 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Appearing to Diminish: Female Development and the British Bildungsroman ... Lorna Ellis Affichage d'extraits - 1999 |
Appearing to Diminish: Female Development and the British Bildungsroman ... Lorna Ellis Aucun aperçu disponible - 1999 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
ability accept alienation amatory fiction analysis Aphra Behn Arabella argue aspects attempts Austen autonomy becomes begins behavior Behn Betsy Thoughtless Betsy's Bildungsroman heroines Bildungsroman protagonist Brontë Burney century character claims clearly conservative consider critics critique Darcy David Copperfield demonstrates desire despite dungsroman eighteenth eighteenth-century Elizabeth Elizabeth Bennet Emma Emma's emphasis Evelina example female Bildungs female Bildungsro female Bildungsroman female development female power Female Quixote feminist Fraiman Frank Churchill gain genre growing Harriet Haywood hero heroic romance heroine's husband implies important internal Jane Austen Jane Eyre Jane's Knightley Lady learns Lennox limited look Lord Orville maintain male Bildungsroman male gaze manipulate appearances marriage marry model of female narrative narrator novel offers plot Pride and Prejudice relationship Rochester romance heroine romance tradition self-construction self-reflection shows similarly social expectations status story subversive suitors tion Trueworth Villars Wilhelm Meister woman women women's power writing young