Male representations of the new women : an analysis of Grant Allen's The woman who did (1895) and George Gissing's The odd women (1893) /
This study investigates and analyses male writers' representations of the New Woman, a new type of women who emerged in late-nineteenth-century Britain, and issues concerning women, also known as the Woman Question, by focussing on two novels by two authors, Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (or...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Gombak, Selangor :
Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia,
2010
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| Online Access: | Click here to view 1st 24 pages of the thesis. Members can view fulltext at the specified PCs in the library. |
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| Summary: | This study investigates and analyses male writers' representations of the New Woman, a new type of women who emerged in late-nineteenth-century Britain, and issues concerning women, also known as the Woman Question, by focussing on two novels by two authors, Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (or better-known as Grant Allen) and George Robert Gissing. They were prolific and best-selling authors during their lifetimes. Although these writers' works are important for their representations of the New Woman, they are less known today in England as well as in Malaysia. The choice of these under-researched authors has also been motivated by a tendency in past studies to focus on a limited number of female authors whose works portrayed the New Woman. Studies that focus on the male representation of the New Woman, on the other hand, are rare and far-in-between. Hence, this thesis is a novel contribution because of its focus on a male-gendered portrayal the New Woman and issues concerning the late- nineteenth-century women. The approach used in the study is based on First Wave Feminist Theory, as founded by important works such as Mary Wollstonecraft's seminal writing, The Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). The data for this qualitative study is taken from the writers' novels – The Woman Who Did (1895) by Grant Allen and The Odd Women (1893) by George Gissing. The thesis' discussion of these writers' male representations on the New Woman and the Woman Question show that while their writings argue that society needed to change the condition and position of women, they were neither completely supportive nor absolutely against women's rights in general. |
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| Item Description: | Abstracts in English and Arabic. "A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Human Sciences (English Literary Studies)."--On t.p. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 98 leaves ; 30 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-98). |