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Women writing men: Female Victorian authors and their representations of masculinity.

机译:女性写作男性:维多利亚时代的女性作家及其男子气概的表现。

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This dissertation covers five female Victorian authors (Elizabeth Gaskell, M.E. Braddon, Dinah Craik, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Edith Nesbit) and the representations of masculinity in their novels. By taking a masculinity studies approach, this dissertation finds that these novels, in an attempt to gain authority and legitimacy in the male-dominated social sphere, often promoted middle-class masculine gender identities as the dominant, ideal masculinity for others. I will argue that female authors in the Victorian period took part in this struggle over re/defining hegemonic male gender identity in different ways, in different genres, for different purposes. Gaskell's Mary Barton and North and South seek to ensure middle-class dominance over the working classes. Braddon's novels Lady Audley's Secret and Aurora Floyd illustrate the unnaturalness of gender (and thus to call into question notions of "natural" differences between men and women, or men and other men) and broaden the definition of acceptable gender identities for men and, by extension, women. The authors of late-period children's literature created texts that either changed or shield from change both male and female gender identities to define the proper way to educate children during a time when gender roles were undergoing changes due to innovations in industry, education, and calls for equal rights for women and non-hegemonic men. All of these texts display a great amount of confidence in the power of literature to shape gender identity. The male characters in novels covered in this dissertation help govern the individual from abstract potential to concrete reality in terms of how masculinity is lived in the everyday world. While pamphlets, medical journals, and conduct books can instruct the reader on ideal conduct (or, conversely, warn against inappropriate conduct) for men, women, boys, and girls, these texts often function in the abstract. The belief held by these authors in the power of literature is enables them to position fictional men in the real world under the assumption that these characters are therefore able to "live out" these ideas of what is and what is not appropriate in performing one's male gender identity.
机译:本论文涵盖了五位维多利亚女王时代的女性作家(伊丽莎白·加斯凯尔,布拉德登女士,黛娜·克雷克,朱莉安娜·霍拉蒂亚·尤因,伊迪丝·内斯比特)以及小说中男性气质的表现。通过采用男性气概研究方法,本论文发现,这些小说试图在男性主导的社会领域获得权威和合法性,常常促进中产阶级男性气概的身份认同,成为他人的主导,理想男性气概。我会争辩说,维多利亚时代的女性作家以不同的方式,不同的体裁和目的,以不同方式重新定义男性霸权性别身份,参与了这场斗争。加斯凯的玛丽·巴顿(Mary Barton)和北方与南方寻求确保中产阶级在工人阶级中的统治地位。布拉登的小说《奥德利夫人的秘密》和奥罗拉·弗洛伊德小说阐明了性别的不自然性(并因此质疑男女之间或男女之间“自然”差异的观念),并拓宽了男性可接受的性别认同的定义,并且扩展名,女士。晚期儿童文学的作者创作的文本可以改变或避免改变男性和女性的性别认同,以定义在由于工业,教育和电话的创新而使性别角色发生变化的时期内教育儿童的正确方法。为妇女和非霸权男人享有平等权利。所有这些文本对文学塑造性别认同的力量显示出极大的信心。本文所涉及的小说中的男性角色从日常生活的男性气质方面帮助人们从抽象潜力到具体现实。虽然小册子,医学期刊和行为书籍可以指导读者了解男性,女性,男孩和女孩的理想行为(或者相反,警告不要进行不当行为),但这些文本通常都是摘要。这些作者对文学力量的信念使他们能够将虚构的男人置于现实世界中,前提是这些角色因此能够“活出”这些关于什么是什么和什么不适合扮演男性的想法。性别认同。

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  • 作者

    Lewis, Daniel.;

  • 作者单位

    Ball State University.;

  • 授予单位 Ball State University.;
  • 学科 Literature English.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2011
  • 页码 313 p.
  • 总页数 313
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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