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Appearing To Diminish: Female Development And The British Bildungsroman, 17501850
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Through Analyses Of The History Of Miss Betsy Thoughless, The Female Quixote, Evelina, Emma, Pride And Prejudice, And Jane Eyre, This Genre Study Explores The Ways In Which The Eighteenth And Nineteenthcentury British Female Bildungsroman Fuses Female Power And Autonomy With A Conservative Reintegration With Society.Although The Works In Question Range Across A Century, Their Combination Of Socially Conservative Plots With Feminist Critiques Of Society Is Remarkable And Rare And Coincides With Similar Convergences Of Particular Historical And Social Forces. The Result, The Early Female Bildungsroman, Embraces The Englightenment Idealization Of Development As It Simultaneously Questions The Bildungsroman'S Underlying Concept, Individual Subjectivity.Feminist Critics Of The Past Two Decades Have Contended That The Protagonists Of Early Female Bildungsroman Actually Grow Down Rather Than Grow Up. This Study Argues Instead That These Protagonists Construct Themselves As Subjects By Manipulating The Signs Of Their Objectification. By Learning How The Male Gaze Functions In Their Society, Heroines Learn To Manipulate Their Appearance And Behavior In Order To Gain Some Control Over The Self They Project For Others. The Result Is A Model Of Development Based On A Fragmented View Of The Self, In Which Heroines Learn To Negotiate Between Their Own Sense Of Personal Autonomy And Society'S More Limited Expectations.This Study Also Briefly Suggests That As Later Heroines, Such As Maggie Tulliver And Edna Pontellier, Publicly Maintain The Right To Create Their Own Worldview, They Lose Their Ability To Compromise And Thus To Survive Within A Hostile Environment. Therefore, Later Novels Of Female Development Abandon The Dialectic Of Reintegration And Subversion That Sustained The Female Bildungsroman.
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