올리브 챈슬러의 성장이야기: 『보스턴 사람들』

• 영문명: The Bostonians as a Growing-Up Story of Olive Chancellor
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 박연옥(Yunok Park)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제139호, 17~45쪽, 전체 29쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2020.12.30

영문 초록

The feminist heroine Olive Chancellor of The Bostonians (1886) written by Henry James has been criticized as a negative character by many critics. Mostly such critics favored he hetero-sexual relationship between Basil Ransom and Verena Tarrant, calling their relationship ‘natural,’ while the intimate female friendship between Olive and Verena was denigrated as a ‘morbid’ or an ‘odd’ relationship. However, in this paper, I attempt to argue that this novel does not end as Basil’s victory over Olive simply because he succeeds in kidnapping Verena in order to stop her speech in front of the large audience of Boston in the Music Hall at the end of the work. Many critics declare that Basil triumphs in the Music Hall episode because he puts live in a fatal crisis. But I do not think this is true, and I instead read this book as Olive’s growing-up story in which she stands alone as a public speaker for women’s emancipation in the end. This paper finds that James may not have been on the side of Basil, as many critics have argued; rather, James may have presented Olive not only as a tragic heroine betrayed by her soul mate but also as a courageous heroine who finally overcomes her defects and becomes an independent speaker for the public.

목차

1. 서론

2. 올리브 대 베이질

3. 올리브와 베이질이 버리나에게 끌리는 이유

4. 올리브의 숨겨진 연설재능

5. 버리나의 배신

6. 올리브의 각성과 홀로서기

7. 결론

인용문헌

키워드

『보스턴 사람들』 올리브 챈슬러 보스턴식 결혼 여성해방 베이질 랜섬 버리나 태런트 The Bostonians Olive Chancelor Boston Marriage Women’s Emancipation Basil Ransom Verena Tarrant