Maria Edgeworth`s The Absentee features one specific scene in which the heroine, Grace Nugent, asserts that she is not a partisan, but a friend of Ireland I argue that this specific phrase is the novel`s main theme As such, I explore the ways in which ``being a friend`` may differ from ``being a partisan`` of a certain country, and who may be qualified to be ``a friend`` to ..
A Simple Story`s peculiar portrayal of two generations of women, mother and daughter, has invited many attempts to locate a link between the two narratives Focusing on the male figure of authority upon whom the two stories hinge together, this paper examines how the novel reveals as problematic the combination of moral instruction with heterosexual love in the conventional..
This essay challenges and deconstructs the feminization of deviant materialistic desire, an important preoccupation of late nineteenth-century American naturalism Turn-of-the-century American culture expressed great anxiety over changing gender roles and expanding consumerism through its critical and frequently negative stance toward the figure of the New Woman, whose..
This paper explores how Nora Okja Keller represents the alternative diaspora and female body in her second novel, Fox Girl, focusing on the tragedy and inhumanity of kijich`on prostitution, as one of the consequences of US military presence in Korea after the Korean War The paper pays particular attention to the fates of Amerasian teenaged girls and shows how Duk Hee, a f..
The image of the reading woman as cultural consumer haunts the romantic imagination The recurrent image of women as consumers in Romantic poetry is partially due to male poets` preoccupation with audience in an increasingly feminized literary market The sympathetic female auditor of the conversation poem serves to mitigate the male poets` fears about the reception of their..
This paper argues for the importance of subsistence as the basic value underlying what I call ``the subsistent subaltern women`s perspective`` in Cold Mountain (1997) Maria Mies argues that the production and sustaining of life must be a feminist objective to counter the capitalist patriarchal colonization of nature, women, and other races, while Gayatri Spivak conceptual..