'And now you love me, and there is no way out of it': marital engagement, misogyny and violence in the Victorian fin-de-siècle gothic short story.
This article will examine the gendered nature of monstrosity in the fin-de-siècle gothic short story, using the phenomenon of marital engagement as a lens on how 'correct' and transgressive sexual behaviour on the part of both women and men were defined and distinguished from each other in the 1880s...
| Publicado en: | Women's History Review Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 82 - 101 |
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Feb2023
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