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<dc:title>Gothic Lesbianism in Joseph T. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1872), Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca (1938) and Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith (2002)</dc:title>
<dc:creator>Ribeiro Pimentel, Danyelle</dc:creator>
<dc:contributor>Perojo Arronte, María Eugenia</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras</dc:contributor>
<dcterms:abstract>Gothic literature sets the ideal environment to represent sexual orientation and, specifically,&#xd;
lesbianism in a period when homosexuality was transgressive, as is nineteenth- and&#xd;
twentieth-century Britain. This dissertation examines the evolution in the representation of&#xd;
the lesbian figure from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. This study is based on the&#xd;
analysis of the main female characters as lesbian figures in three British Gothic novels from&#xd;
different periods: Carmilla (1872) by Sheridan Le Fanu, Rebecca (1938) by Daphne Du&#xd;
Maurier and Fingersmith (2002) by Sarah Waters. The analysis takes as a primary reference&#xd;
the literary Gothic tradition, Queer Theory and Lesbian Gothic. The conclusions show that&#xd;
the lesbian figure of the twentieth-first century is represented with more confidence about&#xd;
her sexual identity than those of the previous novels, but Gothic elements still reflect an&#xd;
anxiety about it caused by social prejudice similar to the previous centuries.</dcterms:abstract>
<dcterms:abstract>La literatura gótica crea el entorno ideal para representar la orientación sexual y, en&#xd;
concreto, el lesbianismo en una época, como es la Gran Bretaña de los siglos XIX y XX, en&#xd;
la que la homosexualidad tenía un carácter transgresor. Este trabajo estudia la evolución en&#xd;
la representación del lesbianismo desde el siglo XIX hasta el XXI. Para ello, se analizan los&#xd;
personajes femeninos principales en tres novelas góticas británicas de periodos diferentes:&#xd;
Carmilla (1872), de Sheridan Le Fanu; Rebecca (1938), de Daphne Du Maurier; y&#xd;
Fingersmith (2002), de Sarah Waters. El análisis toma como referencias metodológicas la&#xd;
tradición gótica, la teoría queer y el subgénero gótico lésbico. Las conclusiones muestran&#xd;
que la figura lesbiana del siglo XXI se muestra más segura de su identidad sexual, pero los&#xd;
elementos góticos aún reflejan la ansiedad causada por los prejuicios sociales, de una forma&#xd;
parecida a los siglos anteriores.</dcterms:abstract>
<dcterms:dateAccepted>2023-02-06T15:56:48Z</dcterms:dateAccepted>
<dcterms:available>2023-02-06T15:56:48Z</dcterms:available>
<dcterms:created>2023-02-06T15:56:48Z</dcterms:created>
<dcterms:issued>2022</dcterms:issued>
<dc:type>info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis</dc:type>
<dc:identifier>https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/58527</dc:identifier>
<dc:language>eng</dc:language>
<dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
<dc:rights>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/</dc:rights>
<dc:rights>Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional</dc:rights>
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