GEORGE DU MAURIER’S TRILBY: NEW GOTHIC AND NEW WOMAN
GEORGE DU MAURIER’S TRILBY: NEW GOTHIC AND NEW WOMAN
Author(s): Claudia Ioana DoroholschiSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: 1890s Gothic fiction; fin de siècle; George du Maurier; New Woman; Trilby
Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses George Du Maurier's novel Trilby in the light of 1890s discourses of gender and the conventional mechanisms of the New Gothic literature in the period. By looking at how the central female character is constructed, it concludes that the novel makes use of both the language of fin de siècle decadence and that of the New Gothic, and that the tension between these conflicting discourses suggests a simultaneous desire to embrace modernity and an anxiety towards the developments it entails.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2005
- Issue No: 11
- Page Range: 219-225
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English