Published 2016
“…Chapter One on Victorian women writers and Victorian aesthetics, examines the anxieties present in the captivity narratives of Emma Roberts’ “The Florentines” and selected tales of Julia Pardoe’s The Romance of the Harem, which were used as a vehicle for the emancipation of Victorian women in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre before the New Woman movement. Using Sir
Walter Scott’s historical romances as the background for challenging the stereotypes of Muslims and Jews in The Talisman and Ivanhoe, Chapter Two examines the extent to which Benjamin Disraeli’s Alroy, Edward B. …”
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