Emergence of the feminist from the feminine in the late victorian fiction

Abstract

The interesting fact about the Victorian era is that the novels were broadly written to focus newlinethe order and rule of the patriarchal society The late Victorian era witnessed throes of newlineunparalleled changes due to industrialization scientific inventions consumerism, newlinesuffragette movement evangelicalism Unitarianism which influenced writers The newlinepatriarchal society of Victorian England gave vent to unbalanced standards of morality newlineduty and gender that believed in subduing woman and upholding the supremacy of men newlineFiction showed significant changes from the novels of the early Victorian era newlineis a good reason to revisit the Victorian novel The Victorian novels have facilitated themselves into the modern and postmodern milieu that has made revisiting constructive Two post modernist theoretical schools of the 20th century feminism and deconstruction have depended extensively on Victorian novels to evaluate or define themselves The late Victorian fiction shows some of the postmodernist tactics such as centering the margins the refusal to accept the plots and characters of their early Victorian texts the revaluation of the feminine and newlinethe masculine interest in the body pathologies feminism and popular culture The Victorian novelists deliberations on identity crisis marriage women question gender construction becomes doubly interesting because the novel form may be used to understand and reassess the literary vehicle of Victorian expression The novels yield meanings appropriate to theoretical climes a century ahead one could still confirm that Victorian literature is not dated Shades newlineof Victorian and modern preoccupation aids the past to gain precedence over others and newlineone may even perceive the two centuries as one continuum newline newline