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: | Master's Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2012 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2012 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| Granting Institution: | Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Univ. Frankfurt am Main |
| Institutes: | Neuere Philologien |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 820 Englische, altenglische Literaturen |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Note: | Abschlussarbeit zur Erlangung der Magistra Artium im Fachbereich 10 der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Institut für England- und Amerikastudien. Einreichungsdatum: 1. Februar 2012. |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
