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Concepts of "Female Inversion" and the "New Woman" in Rhoda Broughton’s "Dear Faustina" (1897)
(2012)
- 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....
