Old Monsters, Old Curses: The New Hysterical Woman and Penny Dreadful

Posada, Tim

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-46582-7_10

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“…e long and articulated flashback on Vanessa's hospitalization into the Banning Clinic evokes a Biblical imagery of martyrdom and Christological mortification of the flesh which still fails to "clean" Vanessa's body of its fleshly weakness. Posada (2020) reflects on how this sequence might refer to the social epidemics of hysteria inflicted by the phallic power of medical discourse over Victorian women in order to restore their normalcy within gender-appropriate standards of docility and submission.…”

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Gendered Otherness. Deviance and Female Agency in Penny Dreadful’s Vanessa Ives

Perazzini

2023

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The article aims to trace the transmedia narrative of gendered otherness in John Logan’s Penny Dreadful. After a brief introduction to the theoretical framework concerning the subversive constructions of neo-Victorian monstrosity, the article examines the character of Miss Vanessa Ives in Penny Dreadful as an example of the fortunate intersection between the concepts of abjection and female agency.

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confidence: 99%