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Monstrous women and ecofeminism in the Victorian gothic
Ist Teil von
Ecocritical theory and practice
Ort / Verlag
Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Lexington Books
Erscheinungsjahr
[2023]
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Manchester Metropolitan University, 2021: "Wilderness and Female 'Monstrosity': A Material Ecofeminist Reading of Victorian Gothic Fiction"
Includes bibliographical references and index
Social behavior and 'domesticated' women -- Forbidden desire, mental degradation, and nature: repression of gothic madwomen -- Neglect, rage, and reaction: female criminality and the Victorian gothic -- Monstrous transformations and Victorian she-wolves.
"Offering an ecofeminist approach to the interdisciplinary readings of the early to mid-Victorian Gothic of canonical narratives as well as ephemeral penny bloods and dreadfuls, Nicole C. Dittmer identifies assumed "monstrous" women as monistic mind-body figurations who reject social confines and reclaim nature"--