In this thesis I have constructed a "gender code" in the Barthian theory as outlined in... more In this thesis I have constructed a "gender code" in the Barthian theory as outlined in Sfl:. and "Textual Analyses of Poe's 'Valdemar' " in order to examine the plural discourses at play at the site of the narrating "I" in Daniel Defoe's Roxana. Present scholarship on Daniel Defoe's use of the fIrst person female point of view has predominantly concentrated on Moll Flanders, subordinating the importance of Roxana, Defoe's last novel and second attempt with a female narrator in his novels. Like Moll, Roxana self-consciously tells her own story, but the absence of a reason for narration in Roxana makes Roxana a far more complex novel. Using Barthes's hermeneutic code and his theory of antithesis I have attempted to explain why Roxana tells her story. Furthermore, Defoe's paradoxical views on women are more problematic in Roxana. In Chapter One I have discussed the useful aspects of Barthes's structuralist and poststruc...
In this essay, I argue that through a reading of William Godwin's last novel Deloraine and M... more In this essay, I argue that through a reading of William Godwin's last novel Deloraine and Mary Shelley's Mathilda, "The Mourner," and Falkner, one can begin to trace the aesthetics of a Romantic collaboration that explores the dynamics of father-daughter relationships. From Godwin's ...
In this thesis I have constructed a "gender code" in the Barthi... more In this thesis I have constructed a "gender code" in the Barthian theory as outlined in S/Z and "Textual Analyses of Poe's 'Valdemar' " in order to examine the plural discourses at play at the site of the narrating "I" in Daniel Defoe's Roxana. Present scholarship on Daniel Defoe's use of the fIrst person female point of view has predominantly
Near the beginning of Eliza Fenwick's epistolary novel Secresy (1795), the heroine Caroline ... more Near the beginning of Eliza Fenwick's epistolary novel Secresy (1795), the heroine Caroline Ashburn declares to her new friend Sibella Valmont that 'You are a glori-ous girl, Sibella, you elevate, you excite me! You awaken my mind to more and more love of those fervid ...
In this thesis I have constructed a "gender code" in the Barthian theory as outlined in... more In this thesis I have constructed a "gender code" in the Barthian theory as outlined in Sfl:. and "Textual Analyses of Poe's 'Valdemar' " in order to examine the plural discourses at play at the site of the narrating "I" in Daniel Defoe's Roxana. Present scholarship on Daniel Defoe's use of the fIrst person female point of view has predominantly concentrated on Moll Flanders, subordinating the importance of Roxana, Defoe's last novel and second attempt with a female narrator in his novels. Like Moll, Roxana self-consciously tells her own story, but the absence of a reason for narration in Roxana makes Roxana a far more complex novel. Using Barthes's hermeneutic code and his theory of antithesis I have attempted to explain why Roxana tells her story. Furthermore, Defoe's paradoxical views on women are more problematic in Roxana. In Chapter One I have discussed the useful aspects of Barthes's structuralist and poststruc...
In this essay, I argue that through a reading of William Godwin's last novel Deloraine and M... more In this essay, I argue that through a reading of William Godwin's last novel Deloraine and Mary Shelley's Mathilda, "The Mourner," and Falkner, one can begin to trace the aesthetics of a Romantic collaboration that explores the dynamics of father-daughter relationships. From Godwin's ...
In this thesis I have constructed a "gender code" in the Barthi... more In this thesis I have constructed a "gender code" in the Barthian theory as outlined in S/Z and "Textual Analyses of Poe's 'Valdemar' " in order to examine the plural discourses at play at the site of the narrating "I" in Daniel Defoe's Roxana. Present scholarship on Daniel Defoe's use of the fIrst person female point of view has predominantly
Near the beginning of Eliza Fenwick's epistolary novel Secresy (1795), the heroine Caroline ... more Near the beginning of Eliza Fenwick's epistolary novel Secresy (1795), the heroine Caroline Ashburn declares to her new friend Sibella Valmont that 'You are a glori-ous girl, Sibella, you elevate, you excite me! You awaken my mind to more and more love of those fervid ...
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