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dc.title | Henry Fielding's Representation of Women | |
dc.contributor.author | WANG SHENGYU | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-11-08T18:01:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-11-08T18:01:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-05-10 | |
dc.identifier.citation | WANG SHENGYU (2008-05-10). Henry Fielding's Representation of Women. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/28171 | |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis investigates Henry Fieldingb s representation of women and argues that there is a stronger feminist instinct in the deep structure than most critics have perceived. The overall argument is that there is a feminocentric agenda embedded in Fieldingb s writing, in thematic terms and more subtly in stylistic, structural and generic terms. It attempts a revisionist reading of Fielding from a gendered perspective, against Fieldingb s conventional masculinist image and the male ethos often attached to his writing. However, departing from those critics who see Fielding as a pro-women male writer from the social-historical or social-psychological points of view, the thesis tries to establish Fieldingb s feminocentricity mainly through a stylistic and structural study of his works. Most of the research is dedicated to the exploration of womenb s dominant roles in the narrative movement, the imaginative energy which is conferred on women, and the elevation of women in the mock genres. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.subject | representation of women, feminist instinct, feminocentricity, style, structure, genre | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.contributor.department | ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE | |
dc.contributor.supervisor | RICHARDSON, JOHN ALEXANDER | |
dc.description.degree | Ph.D | |
dc.description.degreeconferred | DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY | |
dc.identifier.isiut | NOT_IN_WOS | |
Appears in Collections: | Ph.D Theses (Open) |
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