«The Devil is in the house»Estudio de la representación de la strong-minded woman en la escena victoriana (1850-1895)

  1. Monrós-Gaspar, Laura 1
  1. 1 Universitat de València
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    Universitat de València

    Valencia, España

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Revista:
Cultura, lenguaje y representación = Culture, language and representation: revista de estudios culturales de la Universitat Jaume I = cultural studies journal of Universitat Jaume I

ISSN: 1697-7750

Any de publicació: 2020

Número: 23

Pàgines: 121-134

Tipus: Article

DOI: 10.6035/CLR.2020.23.8 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAccés obert editor

Altres publicacions en: Cultura, lenguaje y representación = Culture, language and representation: revista de estudios culturales de la Universitat Jaume I = cultural studies journal of Universitat Jaume I

Resum

Examples of strong-minded women on the Victorian stage abounded from the 1850s. This coincides in time with a specific use of the term which pejoratively refers to a typified woman who challenges traditional values in the second half of the nineteenth century. The cases of study that I present in this article reveal how a close examination of the strong-minded woman as a theatrical role allows theatre historians to map the aestheticized history of the Woman Question on the Victorian stage as a mirror of the social stereotypes of the time. As I shall contend, the theatrical strong-minded woman is a recurring topos which widens the scope of stock female characters available on stage between the 1850s and the 1870s as a precedent for the New Woman.

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