Exploding the lie : 'angelic womanhood' in selected works by Harriet Martineau, Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot

Du Plessis, Sandra Elizabeth

dc.contributor.advisor	Batley, Karen Elizabeth
dc.contributor.author	Du Plessis, Sandra Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned	2015-05-19T10:11:39Z
dc.date.available	2015-05-19T10:11:39Z
dc.date.issued	1997-11
dc.identifier.citation	Du Plessis, Sandra Elizabeth (1997) Exploding the lie : 'angelic womanhood' in selected works by Harriet Martineau, Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18635>	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18635
dc.description.abstract	Each of these novelists, in her own way, presents a critique of the idealised woman of the nineteenth-century. My aim in this dissertation is to reveal the degree to which each is successful in her mission to 'explode the lie' of angelic womanhood, and, in so doing, free her long-incarcerated Victorian sisters. It took great courage and fortitude to utter at times a lone dissenting voice; and female writers of the present owe a great debt of gratitude to their pioneering Victorian counterparts, who cleared the way for them to take up the banner and continue the march towards female liberation from a stifling ideology.	en
dc.format.extent	1 online resource (ii, 132 leaves)
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject.ddc	823.809352042
dc.subject.lcsh	English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Women in literature	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century	en
dc.subject.lcsh	English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Sex role in literature	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Feminism in literature	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century	en
dc.title	Exploding the lie : 'angelic womanhood' in selected works by Harriet Martineau, Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot	en
dc.type	Dissertation	en
dc.description.department	English Studies	en
dc.description.degree	M.A. (English)