東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Symbols of English Identity: The Cou...

Conelli, Linnea.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Symbols of English Identity: The Country House and Representations of Maternity in Modern British Fiction.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Symbols of English Identity: The Country House and Representations of Maternity in Modern British Fiction./
Author:	Conelli, Linnea.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	267 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-02A.
Subject:	Womens studies. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27959112
ISBN:	9798664748147

Symbols of English Identity: The Country House and Representations of Maternity in Modern British Fiction.
Conelli, Linnea.

Symbols of English Identity: The Country House and Representations of Maternity in Modern British Fiction. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 267 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Although the early twentieth century is often painted as a liberating period for British women as a result of the suffrage and birth control movements, a counter-narrative emerges in modern country house fiction, in which women were still defined by the fulfillment of their biological potential. In modern fiction, the country house acts as a critical tool of oppressive power through its reliance upon representations of traditional womanhood, usually in the form of an idealized maternal figure, who must act as a spiritual caretaker for the home. By advocating for a form of womanhood that is centered on the maintenance of the country house, writers reveal underlying concerns over the changing nature of the British Empire, as well as women's roles within it. Countering modernity, the country house was a means to look longingly backwards into a shared, imagined English past grounded in conservative ideology. To represent growing apprehensions over the Empire's futurity, authors often portrayed the economic and political struggles of the nation as parallel to the intimate private dramas of the families that inhabited the country house, a practice that began in the late 1800s and carried through to interwar literature. In this practice, anxieties surrounding the demise of the country house (and by extension the decline of the nation) were often misdirected towards women who transgressed the traditional gender roles of the past, instead of the shifting landscape of an Empire that could no longer support these monuments to an archaic class system. The examination of country house tropes reveals a tradition of gender inequality that sought to confine women in an idealized paradigm of motherhood, a tradition that still colors the contemporary ways in which we understand the English country house. This project seeks to intervene by troubling conservative gender ideology in country house literature and locating important moments of artistic resistance.

ISBN: 9798664748147Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122688
Womens studies.
Subjects--Index Terms:

British literature

Symbols of English Identity: The Country House and Representations of Maternity in Modern British Fiction.
LDR:03170nmm a2200361 4500 001 2283376
005 20211029101432.5
008 220723s2020 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9798664748147
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI27959112
035 $a AAI27959112
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Conelli, Linnea. $3 3562335
245 1 0 $a Symbols of English Identity: The Country House and Representations of Maternity in Modern British Fiction.
260 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, $c 2020
300 $a 267 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-02, Section: A.
500 $a Advisor: Marshik, Celia.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2020.
506 $a This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
520 $a Although the early twentieth century is often painted as a liberating period for British women as a result of the suffrage and birth control movements, a counter-narrative emerges in modern country house fiction, in which women were still defined by the fulfillment of their biological potential. In modern fiction, the country house acts as a critical tool of oppressive power through its reliance upon representations of traditional womanhood, usually in the form of an idealized maternal figure, who must act as a spiritual caretaker for the home. By advocating for a form of womanhood that is centered on the maintenance of the country house, writers reveal underlying concerns over the changing nature of the British Empire, as well as women's roles within it. Countering modernity, the country house was a means to look longingly backwards into a shared, imagined English past grounded in conservative ideology. To represent growing apprehensions over the Empire's futurity, authors often portrayed the economic and political struggles of the nation as parallel to the intimate private dramas of the families that inhabited the country house, a practice that began in the late 1800s and carried through to interwar literature. In this practice, anxieties surrounding the demise of the country house (and by extension the decline of the nation) were often misdirected towards women who transgressed the traditional gender roles of the past, instead of the shifting landscape of an Empire that could no longer support these monuments to an archaic class system. The examination of country house tropes reveals a tradition of gender inequality that sought to confine women in an idealized paradigm of motherhood, a tradition that still colors the contemporary ways in which we understand the English country house. This project seeks to intervene by troubling conservative gender ideology in country house literature and locating important moments of artistic resistance.
590 $a School code: 0771.
650 4 $a Womens studies. $3 2122688
650 4 $a British & Irish literature. $3 3284317
653 $a British literature
653 $a British modernism
653 $a English country house
653 $a Motherhood
653 $a World War I
690 $a 0453
690 $a 0593
710 2 $a State University of New York at Stony Brook. $b English. $3 1681526
773 0 $t Dissertations Abstracts International $g 82-02A.
790 $a 0771
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2020
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27959112