RT Journal Article
T1 The Philanthropist in Neo-Victorian Literature: (Im)Proper Femininity, Gender Inversion and Freakishness
A1 Pettersson, Lin Elinor
K1 Feminismo
AB The present article singles out the female philanthropist in neo-Victorian fiction to explore the patriarchal unease regarding the unsexing effect of feminism in the mid-Victorian era as well as the literary constructions and contestations of the concept of gender inversion. I will examine how social anxiety regarding feminists materialises through repeated attempts of locating physical traces of gender inversion on the body both then and now. First, I will analyse Michel Faber’s use of Victorian sensationalist perspectives on the New Woman through the lens of freakery in The Crimson Petal and the White (2002). Then I will explore how Emma Donoghue challenges dominant constructions of masculinity and femininity to support lesbian advocacy in The Sealed Letter (2008).
PB Universidad de La Laguna
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/30315
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/30315
LA eng
NO Pettersson, Lin. 2021. “The Philanthropist in Neo-Victorian Literature: (Im)proper Femininity, Gender Inversion and Freakishness”. Revista Canaria De Estudios Ingleses, no. 74 (July), ´15-39. https://www.ull.es/revistas/index.php/estudios-ingleses/article/view/3289.
NO Proyecto de investigación de Excelencia (FFI2013- 44154-P) ‘Nuevos parámetros críticos en torno al concepto de la huella y su aplicación a la literatura reciente en lengua inglesa’Red Temática de Excelencia (FFI20015-71025-RED) ‘Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies in Spain Network’
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026