Bound by Narrative: ‘Reading’ the Female Body and Genre in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

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dc.contributor.advisorTreagus, Mary
dc.contributor.advisorTonkin, Margaret
dc.contributor.authorKelso, Charlotte Eliza Brake
dc.contributor.schoolSchool of Humanities : English and Creative Writingen
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractIn George Eliot’s 1860 realist novel, The Mill on the Floss, Henry Rider Haggard’s 1887 adventure romance She: A History of Adventure, and George Egerton’s 1894 New Woman short story, “The Regeneration of Two”, the female body becomes a representative surface upon which is inscribed the discourses and conflicting ideologies of the social context. This thesis examines authors’ engagement with conventional narratives of femininity in their representations of the physical female body, and in its absence or presence. The representation of female characters within frameworks of genre both reflects and represents changing concerns about bodily identity, gender, and national identity.en
dc.description.dissertationThesis (MPhil) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2019en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/121724
dc.language.isoenen
dc.provenanceThis electronic version is made publicly available by the University of Adelaide in accordance with its open access policy for student theses. Copyright in this thesis remains with the author. This thesis may incorporate third party material which has been used by the author pursuant to Fair Dealing exceptions. If you are the owner of any included third party copyright material you wish to be removed from this electronic version, please complete the take down form located at: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/legalsen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectfeminismen
dc.subjectthe bodyen
dc.subjectdressen
dc.subjectGeorge Elioten
dc.subjectGeorge Egertonen
dc.subjectHenry Rider Haggarden
dc.subjectnew womanen
dc.subjectVictorian Britainen
dc.subjectnineteenth centuryen
dc.subjectfemale bodyen
dc.subjectrealismen
dc.subjectadventure romanceen
dc.titleBound by Narrative: ‘Reading’ the Female Body and Genre in Nineteenth-Century British Literatureen
dc.typeThesisen

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