『ねじの回転』におけるクィントの衣装哲学 : 邪悪な誘惑者から殉教者への変容

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  • Quint's Sartor Resartus in The Turn of the Screw from an Evil Seducer to a Martyr
  • 『ねじの回転』におけるクイントの衣装哲学--邪悪な誘惑者から殉教者への変容
  • ネジ ノ カイテン ニ オケル クイント ノ イショウ テツガク ジャアク ナ ユウワクシャ カラ ジュンキョウシャ エ ノ ヘンヨウ

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This paper attempts to represent The Turn of the Screw as a gothic novel depicting homosexual panic in the late- Victorian society. Strongly influenced by the social purity movement and the Oscar Wilde trial, this narrative portrays homophobia in the late Victorian society in the guise of a ghost story. When Wilde deplored at the court the hideous hatred toward 'the love that dare not speak its name', the atmosphere was deeply rooted in the basis of the patriarchal society of Great Britain which had carried imperialism to all corners of the world. Here, in the narrative, 'hat,' 'gloves', and 'waistcoats' are strong signifiants which convey the sense of class, gender and race, and also construct/deconstruct those ideas thoroughly, dramatizing the battle between hetero/homo-sexuality and hegemony. A governess, inexperienced but with a strong puritanical sense of duty, decides to protect her pupils from the ghosts of an ex-valet Quint and an ex-governess. Quint did have not a hat on, but wore the master's waistcoat, which means his disregard for class, gender, and also imply the possibility to surpass the Victorian code of sexuality. Being not able to deal with the boy's dismissal from the school, the governess began to degenerate and found herself being not a protector but a destroyer of the child. Quint, apparently and actually a villain in this narrative emerged at the end as both a victim and a rebel, the martyr of homosocial, but phomophobic late-Victorian society.

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  • 英米文化

    英米文化 36 (0), 43-58, 2006

    英米文化学会

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