Woman and the demon : the life of a Victorian myth
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Woman and the demon : the life of a Victorian myth
Harvard University Press, 1982
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: cloth ISBN 9780674954069
内容説明
Analyzes the Victorian conception of both demonic and divine nature of women in Victorian art and literature.
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: paper ISBN 9780674954076
内容説明
Here is a bold new vision of Victorian culture: a study of myths of womanhood that shatters the usual generalizations about the squeezed, crushed, and ego-less Victorian woman.
Through copious examples drawn from literature, art, and biography, Nina Auerbach reconstructs three central paradigms: the angel/demon, the old maid, and the fallen woman. She shows how these animate a pervasive Victorian vision of a mobile female outcast with divine and demonic powers. Fear of such disruptive, self-creating figures, Auerbach argues, produces the approved ideal of the dutiful, family-bound woman. The awe they inspire associates them with characters in literature, the only vehicles of immortality in whom most Victorians could unreservedly believe.
Auerbach looks at a wonderful variety of sources: Svengali, Dracula, and Freud; poets and major and minor novelists Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, and Ruskin; lives of women, great and unknown; Anglican sisterhoods and Magdalen homes; bardolatry and the theater; Pre-Raphaelite paintings and contemporary cartoons and book illustrations. Reinterpreting a medley of fantasies, she demonstrates that female powers inspired a vivid myth central to the spirit of the age.
目次
* Introduction * The Myth of Womanhood: Victims * The Myth of Womanhood: Queens * Angels and Demons: Woman's Marriage of Heaven and Hell * Old Maids and the Wish for Wings * The Rise of the Fallen Woman * Victorian Womanhood and Literary Character * Epilogue: The Death of Character and the Fight for Womanhood * Notes * Index
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