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Of Lovely Tyrants and Invisible Women
Emma Domínguez-Rué
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The Female Invalid as Metaphor in the Fiction of Ellen Glasgow
出版Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, 2011
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Women AuthorsLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Women
ISBN383252813X9783832528133
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8xSoeFzGFWAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This book examines images of female illness and invalidism as a metaphor of women's position of invisibility in Victorian and fin-de-siecle America, which pervade the fiction of the Virginia writer Ellen Glasgow (Richmond, 1873-1945). The study contends that the author explores the Victorian cult of invalidism to reveal the mechanisms of patriarchy: her novels warn against adhering to its values, since women are moulded to become epitomes of extreme delicacy and selflessness, being ultimately reduced to virtual inexistence. Many times physically incapacitating, Glasgow seems to suggest, the doctrine of female self-effacement always debilitates women's autonomy as human beings. The female invalids in Glasgow's fiction thus operate as uncanny mirrors of the self women become if they adhere to the traditional code of femininity and its adjoining principle of self-sacrifice.