dc.contributor.author |
Miquel Baldellou, Marta |
dc.date |
2019-10-29T14:29:25Z |
dc.date |
2019-10-29T14:29:25Z |
dc.date |
2010 |
dc.identifier |
1576-6357 |
dc.identifier |
1695-4300 |
dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/66837 |
dc.identifier |
https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.154 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/66837 |
dc.description |
In his article “What is Neo-Victorian Studies?” (2008), Mark Lewellyn argues that the term neo-Victorian fiction refers to works that are consciously set in the Victorian period, but introduce representations of marginalised voices, new histories of sexuality, post-colonial viewpoints and other generally ‘different’ versions of the Victorian era. Valerie Martin’s gothic-romance Mary Reilly drew on Stevenson’s novella to introduce a woman’s perspective on the puzzle of Jekyll and Hyde. Almost twenty-years after the publication of Martin’s novel, the newly established field of research in Neo-Victorian fiction has questioned the extent to which Neo-Victorian recreations of the Victorian past respond to postmodern contemporary reflections and ideas about the period. This article aims to examine the ways in which this Neo-Victorian gothic text addresses both the issues of Victorian femininity and feminist principles now in the light of later Neo-Victorian precepts, taking into consideration that Martin’s novel introduces a woman’s perspective as a feminist response to Stevenson’s text but also includes many allusions to the cult of domesticity as a legacy of the Victorian gothic romance. |
dc.language |
eng |
dc.publisher |
Universidad de La Rioja |
dc.relation |
Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.154 |
dc.relation |
Journal of English Studies, 2010, vol. 8, p. 119-140 |
dc.rights |
cc-by-nc-nd (c) Universidad de La Rioja, 2010 |
dc.rights |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
dc.rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.subject |
Neo Victorian |
dc.subject |
Feminism |
dc.subject |
Postmodernism |
dc.title |
Mary Reilly as Jekyll or Hyde : Neo-Victorian (re)creations of Feminity and Feminism |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |