Here is a bold new vision of Victorian culture: a study of myths of womanhood that shatters the usual generalizations about the squeezed, crushed, and ego-less Victorian woman. Through copious examples drawn from literature, art, and biography, Auerbach reconstructs three central paradigms: the angel/demon, the old maid, and the fallen woman. She shows how these animate a pervasive Victorian vision of a mobile female outcast with divine and demonic powers. Fear of such disruptive, self-creating figures, Auerbach argues, produces the approved ideal of the dutiful, family-bound woman. The awe they inspire associates them with characters in literature, the only vehicles of immortality in whom most Victorians could unreservedly believe. Auerbach looks at a wonderful variety of sources: Svengali, Dracula, and Freud; poets and major and minor novelists Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, and Ruskin; lives of women, great and unknown; Anglican sisterhoods and Magdalen homes; bardolatry and the theater; Pre- Raphaelite paintings and contemporary cartoons and book illustrations. Reinterpreting a medley of fantasies, she demonstrates that female powers inspired a vivid myth central to the spirit of the age.
0 有用 薄荷橙子 2022-04-17 21:43:38
主要看了第四章,关于spinster作为heroic female的神话建构,以及这一形象在非虚构与虚构作品中的呈现。其中对Marian Halcombe这一维多利亚小说中不那么常见的spinster形象的解读很有意思。作者谈到虽然柯林斯显然对女性主义没什么兴趣,且小说表面对这一角色做了比较保守的处理,但《白衣女人》这本书“is our most explicit exaltation of th... 主要看了第四章,关于spinster作为heroic female的神话建构,以及这一形象在非虚构与虚构作品中的呈现。其中对Marian Halcombe这一维多利亚小说中不那么常见的spinster形象的解读很有意思。作者谈到虽然柯林斯显然对女性主义没什么兴趣,且小说表面对这一角色做了比较保守的处理,但《白衣女人》这本书“is our most explicit exaltation of the old maid as a criticism of traditional wifehood”,同时这一角色也呼应了本书所阐述的一个核心神话,即女性作为angel和demon的混合体。 (展开)
0 有用 默默 2016-11-23 12:26:51
第五章关于fallen woman的好看
0 有用 薄荷橙子 2022-04-17 21:43:38
主要看了第四章,关于spinster作为heroic female的神话建构,以及这一形象在非虚构与虚构作品中的呈现。其中对Marian Halcombe这一维多利亚小说中不那么常见的spinster形象的解读很有意思。作者谈到虽然柯林斯显然对女性主义没什么兴趣,且小说表面对这一角色做了比较保守的处理,但《白衣女人》这本书“is our most explicit exaltation of th... 主要看了第四章,关于spinster作为heroic female的神话建构,以及这一形象在非虚构与虚构作品中的呈现。其中对Marian Halcombe这一维多利亚小说中不那么常见的spinster形象的解读很有意思。作者谈到虽然柯林斯显然对女性主义没什么兴趣,且小说表面对这一角色做了比较保守的处理,但《白衣女人》这本书“is our most explicit exaltation of the old maid as a criticism of traditional wifehood”,同时这一角色也呼应了本书所阐述的一个核心神话,即女性作为angel和demon的混合体。 (展开)
0 有用 默默 2016-11-23 12:26:51
第五章关于fallen woman的好看