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Sandra M. Gilbert sözleri ve alıntılarını, Sandra M. Gilbert kitap alıntılarını, Sandra M. Gilbert en etkileyici cümleleri ve paragragları 1000Kitap'ta bulabilirsiniz.Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety
And as Wendy Martin has noted in the nineteenth century, this fear of the intellectual woman became so intense that the phenomenon. . . was recorded in medical annals. A thinking woman was considered such a breach of nature that a Harvard doctor reported during his autopsy on a Radcliffe graduate he discovered that her uterus had shrivelled to the size of a pea.
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The Queen's Looking Glass
For to be selfless is not only to be noble, it is to be dead. A life that has no story, like the life of Goethe's Makarie, is really a life of death, a death-in-life. The ideal of "contemplative purity" evokes, finally, both heaven and the grave.
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The Queen's Looking Glass
"...Jane Austen's Anne Elliot understates the case when she decorously observes, toward the end of Persuasion, that "men have had every advantage of us in telling their story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands" (II, chap II
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Shut Up in Prose: Gender and Genre in Austen's Juvenilia
They shut me up in Prose
—As when a little Girl
They put me in the Closet
—Because they liked me "still"—
Sayfa 107 - Emily Dickinson
The Queen's Looking Glass
...this image of God alone making sky, earth, sea, it is this image which has confused woman.
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Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety
At the same time, however, the woman who squarely confronts both her own femaleness and the patriarchal nature of the plots and poetics available to her as an artist may feel herself struck dumb by what seem to be irreconcileable contradictions of genre and gender. An entry in Margaret Fuller's journal beautifully summarizes this problem:
For all the tides of life that flow within me, I am dumb and ineffectual, when it comes to casting my thought into a form. No old one suits me. If I could invent one, it seems to me the pleasure of creation would make it possible for me to write...
I love best to be a woman; but womanhood is at present too straitly-bounded to give me scope. At hours, I live truly as a woman; at others, I should stifle; as, on the other hand, I should palsy, when I play the artist.
Sayfa 71 - Margaret Fuller
Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety
Similarly, when Byron's Prisoner of Chillon notes that "my very chains and I grew friends," the poet himself is making an epistemological point about the nature of the human mind, as well as a political point about the tyranny of the state. But when Rose Yorke in Shirley describes Caroline Helstone as living the life of a toad enclosed in a block of marble, Charlotte Bronte is speaking through her about her own deprived and constricted life, and its real conditions."
Sayfa 87
Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety
Literally confined to the house, figuratively confined to a single "place," enclosed in parlors and encased in texts, imprisoned in kitchens and enshrined in stanzas, women artists naturally found themselves describing dark interiors and confusing their sense that they were house-bound with their rebellion against being duty bound.
Sayfa 84
Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety
In other words, the "female diseases" from which Victorian women suffered were not always byproducts of their training in femininity; they were the goals of such training.
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Infection in the Sentence :
The Woman Writer and the Anxiety
The woman writer—and we shall see women doing this over and over again— searches for a female model not because she wants dutifully to comply with male definitions of her "femininity" but because she must legitimize her own rebellious endeavors.
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