ENGL 330 Lecture Notes - Homosociality, Bad Copy, Victorian Literature
7 May 2012
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Oliphant has red hair; important trope in victorian literature. Connotes sensuality in a time of sexual prudishness. Relevant for many sensation heroines and women in general. Many paintings during and surrounding the victorian period depict this same trop of. Long, prudish locks was a safe" was of depicting sensuality long, luxuriant hair; typically red locks as well. Alignment with red hair to symbols of creativity. A kind of exoticism to kinds of foreignness perceived as a type of threat: foreignness infiltrated literature in terms of the sensation novel and gothic literature; a threat to english society and english womanhood. Opening of the girl in the period suggests this very point: naturalized femininity and national model of femininity, new threatening figure of the girl of the period goes against nature. Becomes a very profound anxiety in the later antiquity period: think about the narrative destabilization of character versus the essentialist implications of.
