The woman (in) question: gender, politics, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 'Lucretia.'

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 'Lucretia' explores the effects of industrialization and the rise of the middle class in Victorian England upon the social distinction of the Victorian female. LucretiaClavering, the novel's protagonist, is a mutation who desires not only power inbut outside the home as well. The novel questions the role of women in a changing society. Lucretia is a 'forgery' of the feminine ideal that exposes the flaws of English society.

United Kingdom, Women's rights, Femininity, Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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Shepherds in the parlor: Forster's apostles, pagans, and native sons

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Author E.M. Forster's role as a modernist in the dissemination of literary culture has long been balanced by critical judgements which have rendered cultural belonging the central issue of his art. It is argued that Forster takes the aesthetic pairing of the sexual and the affective out of the social environment of the university and uses it to hellenize the domestic novel. This is evidenced in a scrutiny of a number of his works.

Forster, E.M.

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Fetishizing the flunky: Thackeray and the uses of deviance

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Issues discussed concern social classes and the portrayal of male servants as fetishized objects in William Thackeray's novel, 'Vanity Fair.' Topics addressed include the depiction of homosexual desire in Victorian fiction, as well as the relationship between commodity and sexual fetishism.

England, Social aspects, Literature, Critical Essay, 19th century AD, Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis and literature, Fetishism, Fetishism (Religion), English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age), Victorian period literature, 1832-1901, Gay literature, Vanity Fair (Book), Thackeray, William Makepeace

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