Beyond the Body: The Intellectually Transgressive Fallen Woman in Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
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Authors
Burry, Meghan Victoria
Date
2025-05-05
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thesis
Language
eng
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Victorian Literature
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Beyond the Body is a study of the evolution of the literary fallen woman throughout women’s writing of the long nineteenth century. My project uses Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) as a starting point to demonstrate how sexual transgression is interconnected with intellectual transgression. Sexual and intellectual transgression were both policed by patriarchal frameworks of gender and sexuality, and much like women were expected to repress their sexual desires, they were also taught to ignore their factual, rational, and intellectual faculties. Thus, through a study that traces the Victorian fallen woman to the New Woman, I argue that the sexual and intellectual transgression of the former evolves into the sexual and intellectual emancipation of the latter.
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