LEADER 04239nam 22005415 450 001 9910484690103321 005 20250609110122.0 010 $a9783030304768 010 $a3030304760 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-30476-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000009606167 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5963235 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-30476-8 035 $a(Perlego)3491793 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5963162 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009606167 100 $a20191018d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGender, the New Woman, and the Monster /$fby Elizabeth D. Macaluso 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (116 pages) 311 08$a9783030304751 311 08$a3030304752 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction - Gender, The New Woman, and the Monster -- Chapter 2. "I love you with all the moods and tenses of the verb:" Lucy and Mina's Love in Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Chapter 3. The Monstrous Power of Uncertainty: Social and Cultural Conflict in Richard Marsh's The Beetle -- Chapter 4. The Rise of Harriet Brandt: A Critique of the British Aristocracy in Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire -- Chapter 5. Conclusion. 330 $aThis book views late Victorian femininity, the New Woman, and gender through literary representations of the figure of the monster, an appendage to the New Woman. The monster, an aberrant occurrence, performs Brecht's "alienation effect," making strange the world that she inhabits, thereby drawing veiled conclusions about the New Woman and gender at the end of the fin-de-siècle. The monster reveals that New Women loved one another complexly, not just as "friend" or "lover," but both "friend" and "lover." The monster, like the fin-de-siècle British populace, mocked the New Woman's modernity. She was paradoxically viewed as a threat to society and as a role model for women to follow. The tragic suicides of "monstrous" New Women of color suggest that many fin-de-siècle authors, especially female authors, thought that these women should be included in society, not banished to its limits. This book, thefirst on the relationship between the figure of the monster and the New Woman, argues that there is hidden complexity to the New Woman. Her sexuality was complicated and could move between categories of sexuality and friendship for late Victorian women, and the way that the fin-de-siècle populace viewed her was just as multifarious. Further, the narratives of her tragedies ironically became narratives that advocated for her survival. Elizabeth D. Macaluso teaches and tutors writing at Queensborough Community College, USA. She previously taught Victorian and British fin-de-siècle literatures and topics in rhetoric and composition at Binghamton University, USA. This is her first critical book on the late Victorian period. Macaluso is also a published poet, with poetry featured in VIA, Arba Sicula, The Paterson Literary Review, and the San Diego Poetry Annual. Her first volume ofpoetry, The Lighthouse, will be published by Guernica Editions. Macaluso has earned The Dr. Alfred Bendixen Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student in English and the Graduate Student Excellence Award in Teaching for her work with Binghamton University undergraduates. She has attended numerous conferences on her critical and creative work. 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aEuropean Literature 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 14$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 676 $a809.93352042 676 $a820.9352209034 700 $aMacaluso$b Elizabeth D$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01227766 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484690103321 996 $aGender, the New Woman, and the Monster$92850687 997 $aUNINA