娘の死 : メアリ・ウルストンクラフト、『女性の虐待、あるいはマライア』(1798)における自伝とゴシック

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In Mary Wollstonecraft's The Wrongs of Woman there are two literary modes which are important for the work to be established as a discourse of feminism as the author originally plans. They are autobiography and Gothicism. In the novel Maria twice writes about her life with different reasons. These autobiographical texts attack the contemporary male-oriented society, and one of them presents an ideal figure of woman who possesses much sensibility but behaves with deliberation. Critical attention should be paid to the actual condition in the story for those feminist texts to have emerged. In each case it is the nonexistence of Maria's daughter, first apparent then literal, that forces or allows her mother to write in an autobiographical mode, and the child's disappearance itself is realized only through the agency of the Gothic mode which the author deliberately introduced in the work. Maria's husband has a vicious plot aiming for her legacy, from which she and her daughter suffer considerably, especially the young child who is separated from her mother to be allotted an eventual early death. The Wrongs of Woman demands, above all, the death of Maria's daughter in a Gothic fashion before her autobiographical narratives are to be read in a feminist way.
群馬大学の論文
2006-03-31