Artikel
Identity, character, and gender : Anna Barbauld and Pope's characters of men and women
Verfasst von:
Ready, Kathryn
in:
Women's writing
Wallingford:
2004
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377 - 398 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Ready, Kathryn |
| In: | Women's writing |
| Jahr: | 2004 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| I address the relationship between Barbauld's and Pope's verse characters, exploring their common engagement in the eighteenth-century debate first sparked by John Locke's claim in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1694) "that self is not determined by Identity ... of Substance ... but only by Identity of consciousness". I note that Barbauld expresses much less anxiety than Pope concerning the implications of Lock's theory of self-in-consciousness. Indeed, Barbauld's "Characters" suggest an attempt to develop some of the feminist implications of Locke's statements about the nature and identity of the self. In these poems the author challenges certain persisting hegemonic umptions about the sexes, although there are also signs of resistance to the most radical feminist implications of the theory of self-in-consciousness. The "Characters" finally aim at stabilising the relationship between gender and identity in a way that affirms the sexual division of labour, even as they stress the value of women's work. | |
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