RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 The Woman in White: Marian Halcombe, or Checkmate on Women’s Empowerment
A1 Fernández Crespo, Belén
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Filología Inglesa
AB Wilkie Collins’s fraudulent rhetoric of protest against patriarchal Victorian oppression is manifested through his manipulation of Marian Halcombe’s character: she does not represent an attainable example of women’s empowerment but rather of women’s subordination. Marian confronts Victorian patriarchal discourse through the doomed, symbolic games of chess she plays with Fosco and Collins, but she is inevitably disciplined, tamed, and transformed into the perfect “Angel in the House.” When the novel concludes, neither gender roles will have been changed nor equality attained, and feminine readers will have been lured into accepting that resignation, sacrifice and submission are the only alternatives.
SN 2531-1654
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/58195
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/58195
LA eng
NO ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies; No. 43 (2022) pags. 157-181
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-ene-2025