A Gendered Analysis of Victorian Women's narrative inVirginia Woolf's "The Angel in the House ."

Beginning from the idea that the nineteenth-century British novel is atype of fiction that includes as two of its fundamental elementsfictionality and the creation of a narrator that tells the story that isnarrated, our contribution analyses the growth of Victorian women'sfiction as the output of a number of women authors conscious of theirfeminine character and who are interested with investigating the femaleuniverse in their literary output, presenting the reader with an illustrationof the difference that highlights the cultural construction of women in thenineteenth century. To the major metaphor of the woman as “the angel inthe house” as described by Virginia Woolf, we defy the “new woman”and the movement towards women’s liberty, and a new standard offemininity which resulted in a description of the difference (the femalevirility), which permits an overview of meaningful representatives of thegenre: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Elizabeth Bennet, Emily Brontë, EllenWood, and Mary Wollstonecraft. These are embodiments of a facing ofthe moral code and controlling behaviour in force throughout thenineteenth century in England, it is historical proof of the individualityand personal capability of a collective marginalized by the prevalentstatus and relegated to the margins of history.

کلیدواژه ها:

femininity ، feminism ، gender ، masculinity ، Victorianage.