عنوان

'A large and passionate humanity plays about her' :

شماره

TLets566434

عنوان اصلي

'A large and passionate humanity plays about her' :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Murdoch, Christina

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

women and moral agency in the late Victorian social problem novel

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Glasgow

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2012

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Glasgow

امتياز متن

2012

متن يادداشت

This thesis examines responses to the idea of a specific female moral agency in depictions of women's philanthropic work by late nineteenthcentury female novelists. Focusing on depictions of romantic and sexual female experience in the late nineteenth-century campaign against poverty, I explore the role of gender and sexuality in the making of the female moral self in novels by Mrs. Humphry Ward, Iota, Margaret Harkness, Jane Hume Clapperton, Gertrude Dix. I demonstrate the manner in which altruism was linked to romantic love and sexual desire, and show how this idea surfaced in the love-plot in novels by late nineteenth-century women. I argue that the novel was regarded as a valuable instrument to further the process of social reform, owing to its perceived unique ability to arouse the reader's sympathies; therefore, these novelists used the novel as a tool for constructing the altruistic self. Reading the novels alongside contemporary non-fiction discourse, I undertake an analysis of different romance plots and show how they relate to the debates of the social reform movement of the late nineteenth century. Finally, I suggest that by using the novel, and especially the romance plot, which was regarded as a feminine form of expression, these novelists are defending the idea of a feminine ethic, and a feminine conception of morality that was defined by emotion, feeling, and sympathy, as opposed to the more masculine scientific and sociological ideas behind the late nineteenth century social reform movement.

موضوع مستند نشده

PR English literature

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Murdoch, Christina

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Glasgow

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y