Published On Jul 29, 2022
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Today we're looking at 3 victorian pieces of literature and seeing what they have to say about the patriarchal desire for female devotion, love, and sentiment.
Sources:
Browning , Elizabeth Barrett. “Aurora Leigh.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Victorian Age, by Stephen Greenblatt, Tenth ed., W.W. Norton & Company, 2018, pp. 124–136.
Browning, Robert. “My Last Duchess.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Victorian Age, by Stephen Greenblatt, Tenth ed., W.W. Norton & Company, 2018, pp. 328-329.
Browning, Robert. “Porphyria’s Lover.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Victorian Age, by Stephen Greenblatt, Tenth ed., W.W. Norton & Company, 2018, pp. 324-325.
Case, Alison. “Gender and Narration in ‘Aurora Leigh.’” Victorian Poetry, vol. 29, no. 1, 1991, pp. 17–32. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40002051. Accessed 12 Mar. 2021.
Mill, John Stuart. “The Subjection of Women.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Victorian Age, by Stephen Greenblatt, Tenth ed., W.W. Norton & Company, 2018, pp. 90-101.
