Date Thesis Awarded
5-2011
Access Type
Honors Thesis -- Access Restricted On-Campus Only
Degree Name
Bachelors of Arts (BA)
Department
English
Advisor
Deborah Denenholz Morse
Committee Members
Nancy Gray
Suzanne Raitt
Kathrin Levitan
Abstract
For the woman of Victorian fiction, the looming threat of the unknown East both excited and haunted the imagination. In this thesis, I focus primarily on how suttee, or Hindu widow burning, and the woman's body became the focal point through which the relationship between England and India is negotiated through readings of Flora Annie Steel's "On the Face of the Waters" and Philip Meadows Taylor's "Seeta."
Recommended Citation
Butler, Virginia Lynn, "Black Brides: Examining the Eastern Threat to Victorian Womanhood in Fiction" (2011). Undergraduate Honors Theses. William & Mary. Paper 430.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/430
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Comments
Thesis is part of Honors ETD pilot project, 2008-2013. Migrated from Dspace in 2016.