Of Lovely Tyrants and Invisible Women - Invalidism as Metaphor in the Fiction of Ellen Glasgow (Paperback)

This book examines images of female illness and invalidism as a metaphor of women's position of invisibility in Victorian and fin-de-siecle America, which pervade the fiction of the Virginia writer Ellen Glasgow (Richmond, 1873-1945). The study contends that the author explores the Victorian cult of invalidism to reveal the mechanisms of patriarchy: her novels warn against adhering to its values, since women are moulded to become epitomes of extreme delicacy and selflessness, being ultimately reduced to virtual inexistence. Many times physically incapacitating, Glasgow seems to suggest, the doctrine of female self-effacement always debilitates women's autonomy as human beings. The female invalids in Glasgow's fiction thus operate as uncanny mirrors of the self women become if they adhere to the traditional code of femininity and its adjoining principle of self-sacrifice.

General

Imprint:	Logos Verlag Berlin
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	May 2011
First published:	May 2011
Authors:	Emma Dominguez-Rue
Dimensions:	210 x 145mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	252
ISBN-13:	978-3-8325-2813-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	3-8325-2813-X
Barcode:	9783832528133

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