Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, 18371871

Offering an ecofeminist approach to the interdisciplinary readings of the early-to-mid Victorian Gothic of both canonical narratives and ephemeral penny bloods and dreadfuls, Dittmer identifies assumed "monstrous" women as monistic mind-body figurations, who reject social confines and reclaim nature.

List of contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Social Behavior and 'Domesticated' Women
Chapter Two: Forbidden Desire, Mental Degradation, and Nature: Repression of Gothic Madwomen
Chapter Three: Neglect, Rage, and Reaction: Female Criminality and the Victorian Gothic
Chapter Four: Monstrous Transformations and Victorian She-Wolves
Conclusion
Appendix: For Further Reading
References
About the Author

About the author

Nicole C. Dittmer is lecturer at The College of New Jersey and proofreader/editorial board member at Studies in Gothic Fiction.

Summary

Offering an ecofeminist approach to the interdisciplinary readings of the early-to-mid Victorian Gothic of both canonical narratives and ephemeral penny bloods and dreadfuls, Dittmer identifies assumed “monstrous” women as monistic mind-body figurations, who reject social confines and reclaim nature.

Product details

• Authors: Nicole C. Dittmer
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781666900798
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-079-8
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Gothic, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers