"Oh Dear Resemblance of Thy Murdered Mother": Female Authorship in Evelina

Greenfield, Susan C.

doi:10.1353/ecf.1991.0010

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“…Chasity is the most important quality of a woman, and the loss of it before marriage can even destroy the rest of her life. The lack of a patriarchal identity makes Evelina the assumed public property easily exposed to men's disposal, and thus almost all the men except Lord Orville seduce Evelina without any intention of marrying her [6]. It is rather ironical that those seducers generally come from prestigious families with good birth and education.…”

Section: B Sexual Abusementioning

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Violence Against Women in Evelina

Xin¹

2018

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2018)

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Evelina, the best-known novel of Frances Burney, tells a young rustic girl's entrance into London society. Burney portrays a vivid panorama of 18th-century London shrouded by appealing glamours and ubiquitous violence as well. This paper focuses on the physical, psychological and social violence the female characters encounter in the novel, aimed at exploring the fundamental reason for the terrible treatment from a feminist perspective. Women in 18th-century England were prone to be the target of physical violence mainly reflected in body harm and sexual abuse. Further, women also suffered from various forms of psychological violence in their daily life. It is argued by this paper that the violence against women is not an accidental result of individual pathology but the inevitable consequence of patriarchal definitions of gender roles.

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Section: B Sexual Abusementioning

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Violence Against Women in Evelina

Xin¹

2018

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2018)

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Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England

Longfellow

2004

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This study challenges critical assumptions about the role of religion in shaping women's experiences of authorship. Feminist critics have frequently been uncomfortable with the fact that conservative religious and political beliefs created opportunities for women to write with independent agency. The seventeenth-century Protestant women discussed in this book range across the religio-political and social spectrums and yet all display an affinity with modern feminist theologians. Rather than being victims of a patriarchal gender ideology, Lady Anne Southwell, Anna Trapnel and Lucy Hutchinson, among others, were both active negotiators of gender and active participants in wider theological debates. By placing women's religious writing in a broad theological and socio-political context, Erica Longfellow challenges traditional critical assumptions about the role of gender in shaping religion and politics, and the role of women in defining gender and thus influencing religion and politics. erica longfellow is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University. She is co-coordinator of the Performing History project in association with Hampton Court Royal Palace, which aims to reproduce early modern dramatic performances in historical settings.

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Longfellow¹

2004

Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England

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"Oh Dear Resemblance of Thy Murdered Mother": Female Authorship in Evelina

Cited by 19 publications

References 6 publications

Violence Against Women in Evelina

Violence Against Women in Evelina

Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England

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