Marilyn D. Button, Toni Reed

The Foreign Woman in British Literature (eBook, PDF)

Exotics, Aliens, and Outsiders

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Produktbeschreibung

While England has been strengthened by a proud isolationism, she has simultaneously been enriched by the economic, social, and political complexities that have emerged as people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds have moved within her borders, or when her own citizens have emigrated among those foreigners to live or rule. This book explores the foreign element in English culture and the attempt by English writers from the early 19th to the mid 20th century to portray their complex and often ambiguous responses to that doubly foreign element among them: the foreign woman. While being foreign may begin with national or ethnic difference, the contributors to this book expand it to include other forms of alienation from a dominant culture, resulting from gender, race, class, ideology, or temperament.

The many factors shaping English national identity-including British imperialism, immigration patterns, English family and social structures, and English common law-have been shaped by gender-related issues. Though not a prominent literary figure, the foreign woman in England has received increasingly critical attention in recent years as a psychological and sociological phenomenon. By beginning with Byron in the early 19th century and concluding with Lawrence Durrell in the 20th century, this study contributes to a more comprehensive vision of the foreign woman as she is portrayed by a number of British authors, including Shelley, Wordsworth, Charlotte Bronté, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, and Anita Brookner.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313388729
• Artikelnr.: 37844032

Autorenporträt

MARILYN DEMAREST BUTTON is Associate Professor of English at Lincoln University. She has contributed to numerous scholarly journals and reference works.

TONI REED is a grant development consultant and freelance writer. Her previous books include Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction (1988).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction by Marilyn Demarest Button Dismantling Traditionalist
Gender Roles: An Exotic Counter World in Byron's DON JUAN by Frank P. Riga
Transforming the Stereotype: Exotic Women in Shelley's Alastor and The
Witch of Atlas by John Greenfield "Asia Loves Prometheus": Asian Women and
Shelley's Macropolitics by Eleanor Harrington-Austin A Genealogy of
Ruths: From Alien Harvester to Fallen Woman in Nineteenth-Century England
by Eve W. Stoddard Charlotte Brontë's VILLETTE: Imagining a Self between a
Husband and a Wall by Andrea O'Reilley Herrera Challenging Traditionalist
Gender Roles: The Exotic Woman as Critical Observer in Elizabeth Barrett
Browning's AURORA LEIGH by Maureen Thum "In Short, She Is an Angel and I
Am--": Odd Women and Same-Sex Desire in Wilkie Collins' WOMAN IN WHITE by
Laurel Erickson The "Other" Woman in George Eliot's Fiction by Oliver
Lovesey Phantoms for a Human Face: Race and the Construction of the African
Woman's Identity in Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS by Ode S. Ogede The
Foreign Woman Is a Man: Gender Reversal in D. H. Lawrence's Fiction by Karl
Henzy Gypsy Women in English Life and Literature by Celia Esplugas A Losing
Tradition: The Exotic Female of Anita Brookner's Early Fiction by Marilyn
Demarest Button "Our Many Larval Selves": Durrell's Livia and the
Cross-Cultural Signal by Mary Mathews Index