The Unacknowledged Nineteenth Century Woman: The Portrayal of the Governess in Victorian Literature
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The Unacknowledged Nineteenth Century Woman: The Portrayal of the Governess in Victorian LiteratureAuthor (s)
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Posteguillo Gómez, Santiago; Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis AnglesosDate
2017-06-08Publisher
Universitat Jaume IAbstract
The Victorian era was characterised for being a period of changes not only in technology, politics and
economy but also in society, primarily with the growth of the middle class. This fact enabled the
proliferation ... [+]
The Victorian era was characterised for being a period of changes not only in technology, politics and
economy but also in society, primarily with the growth of the middle class. This fact enabled the
proliferation of a group of ladies specialised in educating middle class children; or in other words,
governesses. As a consequence, literature was influenced allowing the emergence of a new literary genre,
the governess novel. The aim of this paper is, consequently, to analyse how those Victorian governesses
were portrayed in fiction. In order to conduct this research, three novels; Agnes Grey, Jane Eyre and The
Turn of the Screw, by three well-known Victorian writers; Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë and Henry
James, were selected. Subsequently, these narratives have been examined bearing in mind the real
conditions and struggles that governesses had to confront both in the public and private domain.
Moreover, the introduction of fictitious facts related to governessing, which have made the novels more
appealing to readers, has also been taken into account. This further analysis has revealed the existent
similarities and dissimilarities between reality and fiction as well as the different points of view that
writers wanted to present with their novels in relation to governessing. [-]
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Treball Final de Grau en Estudis Anglesos. Codi: EA0938. Curs acadèmic: 2016/2017
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