Devils and Monsters : Unveiling the Dark Side of Marriages in
Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and Sarah Perry’s The
Essex Serpent (2016)

k 2023

Devils and Monsters : Unveiling the Dark Side of Marriages in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent (2016)

VALOVÁ, Jana

Základní údaje

Originální název

Devils and Monsters : Unveiling the Dark Side of Marriages in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent (2016)

Autoři

VALOVÁ, Jana

Vydání

Victorian Popular Fiction Association 15th Annual Conference - Hidden Histories / Recovered Stories, 12 - 14th July 2023, Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK, 2023

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Jean Rhys; Sarah Perry; marriage; neo-Victorianism; gothic

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 5. 2. 2024 12:09, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

In the book Neo-Victorian Families: Gender, Sexual and Cultural Politics Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben write that “neo-Victorian writers have seized on the nineteenth-century family as a ready-made means of cultural critique, particularly from feminist, gender and postcolonial perspectives” (5-6). Consequently, marriage, as a theme in contemporary Victorian-era revisitations, only rarely depicts a successful and respectful union between two people. On the contrary, happy relationships are something out of the ordinary, primarily used to emphasise further the inequality and inherent dysfunctionality of the other marriages. In Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), Jean Rhys revisits the silenced and villainised Antoinette/Bertha from Charlotte Bronte’s canonical work Jane Eyre (1847). The toxic relationship between her and her husband, Rochester, goes through various stages until ultimately reaching disgust and hatred. Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent (2016) is concerned with finding the titular creature that haunts a small village. Nevertheless, it becomes clear throughout the story that other monsters also permeate the narrative. This presentation focuses on the various representations of marriage in the abovementioned novels. Be it Rochester’s madwoman in the attic or a union between a reverend and his angel in the house, it becomes clear that neo-Victorian literature refuses to romanticise the model of a patriarchal family. The idea of marriage as a private affair is left behind; instead, these neo-Victorian works present a harrowing dissection of its dark side.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1054/2022, interní kód MU

Název: Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies III

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies III

Citovat

VALOVÁ, Jana. Devils and Monsters : Unveiling the Dark Side of Marriages in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent (2016). In Victorian Popular Fiction Association 15th Annual Conference - Hidden Histories / Recovered Stories, 12 - 14th July 2023, Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK. 2023.

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VALOVÁ, Jana. Devils and Monsters : Unveiling the Dark Side of Marriages in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent (2016). In \textit{Victorian Popular Fiction Association 15th Annual Conference - Hidden Histories / Recovered Stories, 12 - 14th July 2023, Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK}. 2023.

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