| Description |
1 online resource (107 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-107) and index. |
| Summary |
Many female Victorian-era heroines find themselves expressing a form of loneliness directly connected to their lack of agency. Loneliness is defined by a lack, and it is this that is prevalent to these characters' discussion of the social structures that define their lives. As there is no way to easily discuss a lack of agency without stating that there is something missing from the root agency, loneliness is an expression of missing components. This work analyses this "lack" found in loneliness as a trope to discuss a social lack. Many novels are crucial to this discussion, and this book focuses on Charlotte Brontë's Villette (1853), Anne Brontë's Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860), Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1892), Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire (1897) and Ella Hepworth Dixon's The Story of a Modern Woman (1894) to trace the evolution of the double use of lack in the nineteenth-century novel. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- History -- 17th century.
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Heroines in literature.
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Loneliness in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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English literature |
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English fiction |
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Heroines in literature |
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Loneliness in literature |
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Women and literature |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| ISBN |
9781527530478 (electronic bk.) |
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1527530477 (electronic bk.) |
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9781527527799 (hardcover) |
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1527527794 (hardcover) |
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