Artikel
"Essentially a Lady" : resistant values of the shabby-genteel in Ellen Wood's novels of high life
Verfasst von:
Wagner, Tamara S.
in:
Women's writing
Wallingford:
2008
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199 - 218 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Wagner, Tamara S. |
| In: | Women's writing |
| Jahr: | 2008 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This reassessment of Ellen Wood's ongoing experiments with new suitable sensational spaces seeks to suggest that her reworking of earlier fashionable fiction in her mid-century novels engenders an intriguing projection of domestic Gothic back into traditional great house narratives. Within this twofold inversion of late eighteenth-century “female” Gothic, Wood can be seen to capitalize on the revaluation of impoverished gentility as a counter-narrative to emergent ideologies of self-help and their fictionalization. Exemplifying the collision of opposing narrative structures in the resulting sensational novels of fashionable high life, The Red Court Farm (1868) in particular articulates anxieties of downward mobility, even as it creates one of the most enthusiastic engineers of nineteenth-century literature as a counterpart to the pseudo-aristocratic smuggler. The collision of Victorian cultural narratives of the engineers of the future and the shabby-genteel as a relict of the past well worth preserving is thus worked out through a renegotiation of literary legacies. It projects a significant trajectory of women's writing, in which Wood's changing approaches to the emergent paradigms of literary sensationalism provide a crucial conduit. | |
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