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Dangerous women: gender anxieties and female archetypes in Victorian gothic literature

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Victorian literature
 Gothic literature
 English literature
 Women and literature
 Gender identity in literature
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Mayer, Jed
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Spring 2025
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2025-05
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This thesis examines two key literary representations of these changes: the New Woman and the femme fatale, focusing on how each figure reflects the era’s deep-rooted anxieties surrounding female autonomy and growing independence. More specifically, I examine the differences in the representations of the New Woman and her stereotypes in comparison to the real feminists behind the ideals that inspired the literary figure of the New Woman.
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