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Black Brides: Examining the Eastern Threat to Victorian Womanhood in Fiction

Butler, Virginia Lynn
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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."
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Thesis is part of Honors ETD pilot project, 2008-2013. Migrated from Dspace in 2016.
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2011-05-14
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Morse, Deborah Denenholz
Gray, Nancy
Raitt, Suzanne
Levitan, Kathrin
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