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    Demonising the Victorian heroine's coming-of-age in Edward Bulwer-Iytton's "Lucretia" and Edagr Allan Poe's women's tales

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    URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1278
    ISSN: 1578-3820
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i9.205
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    Miquel Baldellou, Marta
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    2008
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    In Victorian times, the female subject, as embodiment of domestic morality, contributed to the construction of middle-class ideology. In Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel Lucretia (1846), the female protagonist apparently incarnates the ideal Victorian heroine. Nonetheless, through her coming-of-age, Lucretia’s privileged mind and lack of affection lead her to pursue ambitious aims in a men’s world. Edgar Allan Poe also referred to the incipient power women began to achieve. This article aims to analyse in which ways Victorian women’s awakening power is demonised through their comingof-age, thus pursuing a transatlantic comparative analysis between Bulwer-Lytton’s Lucretia and Edgar Allan Poe’s women’s tales. En la época victoriana, los personajes femeninos, como personifi caciones de la moralidad doméstica, contribuyeron a la construcción de la ideología de la clase media. En la novela Lucrecia de Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1846), la protagonista aparentemente encarna el ideal de la heroína vic...
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    Transatlanticism
    gender
    Victorian heroines
    gothic fiction
    coming-of-age
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    Edgar Allan Poe
    Transatlanticismo
    género
    heroínas victorianas
    ficción gótica
    paso a la madurez
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