젠더와 장르 :『분별과 감수성』에서의 규범적 여성의 의미

• 영문명: The Cultural and Historical Significance of the Sensible Woman in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
• 발행기관: 한국비평이론학회
• 저자명: 김진아(Jina Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『비평과 이론』제10권 제2호, 291~309쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.12.01

영문 초록

Many critics have argued that the impulsive and romantic heroine Marianne Dashwood models her feelings and behavior on the literary convention of the sentimental novel, whereas her prudent and sensible sister Elinor regulates hers in accordance with the social convention of the period. This paper, while agreeing that Marianne has much to do with the heroines in the sentimental novels, argues that Elinor also directly comes from the literary convention of the period, namely the didactic and domestic novel. Criticizing the 'cult of sensibility' of the former generation, the women writers of the romantic period created numerous heroines equipped with self-control, solicitude, judgement and reason. Placing Elinor among the heroines of the literary convention of the Romantic period, this paper further examines the ideological implications of the sensible and reasonable women characters. First, the production of the sensible heroines effectively defied the dominant discourse of the difference between the sexes that assigned reason to man and feeling to woman. Second, the didactic novels of the period attempted to make the novel that had been considered dangerous to female readers a safe and beneficial as well as respectable literary genre. In the process, however, the novel came to be appropriated as a properly masculine genre and the numerous women novelists' existence was almost completely forgotten. By exploring these issues, this paper aims to investigate the interrelationship between gender and genre.