GENDER MASQUERADE İN THE FİCTION DRAMA OF THE ENGLISH NOVELİSTS ELİZA HAYWOOD AND JANE AUSTEN
GENDER MASQUERADE İN THE FİCTION DRAMA OF THE ENGLISH NOVELİSTS ELİZA HAYWOOD AND JANE AUSTEN
Author(s): Cristina NicolaescuSubject(s): Gender Studies, Comparative Study of Literature, Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: Haywood; Austen; female identity; masquerade; drama fiction;
Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to demonstrate the influence of the theatrical experience of the authors Eliza Haywood and Jane Austen in their novels: “Fantomina, or Love in a Maze (1725) and “Mansfield Park” (1814). Fanny Price’s story, enthralling with Jane Austen's fine and ironic humor, and the sensational narrative of Eliza Haywood around an unnamed female character, conventionally called Fantomina, will be compared from the structural and compositional point of view in order to highlight their clear relationship with the dramatic genre, explained by the interest of these English authors in the contemporary theater of their era, which in part they parodied, in part brought narrative innovations to their work under the influence of the specific dramatic art of dialogue, monologue and free indirect speech.
Journal: Cogito - Multidisciplinary research Journal
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 58-63
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English
