Artikel
Pamela und der haarige Affe : zur Soziologie des Frauenhasses in der modernen Literatur
Verfasst von:
Höss, Tilman
info
in:
Anglia
Tübingen:
2000
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67 - 98 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Höss, Tilman info |
| In: | Anglia |
| Jahr: | 2000 |
| Sprache: | Deutsch |
| Beschreibung: | |
| This essay interprets Richardson's Pamela (1740) as the archetypal bourgeois Cinderella tale and O'Neill's The Hairy Ape (1922) as a text typical of a reversal of male and female roles that can be observed in the literature of the 1920s. Whereas novels like Pamela or Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847) show socially inferior women marrying socially superior men, novels as various as Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925) or Dreiser's An American Tragedy (1925) have at least one feature in common: they show socially superior women involved with socially inferior men. It is the aim of this essay to give reasons for that shift and to explore several possible explanations for the rise of misogyny in modern literature that has apparently accompanied the change in male/female power relationships in general. Three paradigms are scrutinized for their explanatory value: gender (feminist critics like Millett and Beauvoir, and Leslie Fiedler), class (sociologists like Elias, Veblen and Bourdieu), and a historical approach that combines concepts of Marxist theory with Foucault's concept of discourse. | |
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