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

By Nicole C. Dittmer and Nicole C. Dittmer

Product details

• Authors: Nicole C Dittmer, Nicole C. Dittmer, Nicole C. Dittmer Dittmer
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2024
• EAN: 9781666900811
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-081-1
• 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; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; NATURE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, natural history, Feminism & feminist theory, Literature: history & criticism, Feminism and feminist theory, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Literature: history and criticism