Monstrous women and ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, 1837-1871 / Nicole C. Dittmer.

• Introduction -- Chapter 1. Social Behavior and ‘Domesticated’ Women -- Chapter 2. Forbidden Desire, Mental Degradation, and Nature: Repression of Gothic Madwomen -- Chapter 3. Neglect, Rage, and Reaction: Female Criminality and the Victorian Gothic -- Chapter 4. Monstrous Transformations and Victorian She-Wolves -- Conclusion.

• "Nicole C. Dittmer offers a reimagining of the popular Gothic female “monster” figure in early-to-mid-Victorian literature. Regardless of the extensive scholarship concerning monstrosities, these pre-fin-de-siècle figurations have often been neglected by critical studies or interpreted as fragments of mind and body which create a division between culture and nature. In Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism, Dittmer deploys monism to delineate from and contest such dualism, unifies the material-immaterial aspects of fictional women, and blurs the distinction between nature-culture. Blending intertextual disciplines of medical sciences, ecofeminism, and fiction, she exposes female monstrosities as material and semiotic figurations. This book, then, identifies how women in the Victorian Gothic are informed by the entanglement of both immaterial discourses and material conditions. When repressed by social customs, the monistic mind-body of the material-semiotic figure reacts to and disrupts processes of ontology, transforming women into “wild” and “monstrous” (re)presentations"-- 

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Kvinnor i litteraturen  (sao)

Engelsk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Women in literature.  (LCSH)

English fiction  -- 19th century -- History and cricitism. (LCSH)

Horror tales, English  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Ekokritik  (kao)

Ecocriticism  (kao//eng)

Gotisk fiktion  (kao)

Gothic fiction  (kao//eng)

Skräck  (kao)

Horror  (kao//eng)

Viktorianska tiden  (kao)

Victorian period  (kao//eng)

Kvinnobilden  (kao)

Image of women  (kao//eng)

Skräckromaner  -- historia (sao)

Women in literature  (LCSH)

Storbritannien  (kao)

Great Britain  (kao//eng)

1800-talet  (sao)

1800-talet  (kao)

19th century  (kao//eng)

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