Rage and Rebellion in Louisa May Alcott’s “A Whisper in the Dark”-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Rage and Rebellion in Louisa May Alcott’s “A Whisper in the Dark”

Published:2018-09-17 Issue:27/1 Volume: Page:65-80
ISSN:0860-5734
Container-title:Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
language:en
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Author:

Korycka Karolina¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. University of Warsaw

Abstract

This article discusses the feminist implications of Louisa May Alcott’s 1863 Gothic story “A Whisper in the Dark,” which not only expresses the anxieties that the author experienced in response to her upbringing and her social reality, but also provides an extensive critique of patriarchal culture. The essay explores the subversive nature of the story by presenting it as a dark double to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre as well as by showing how the author mocks nineteenth-century sentimentality throughout.

Publisher

University of Warsaw

Subject

Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

Link

http://www.anglica.ia.uw.edu.pl/images/pdf/27-1-articles/Anglica-27-1-5-Korycka.pdf

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5. Carpenter, Lynette. 1986. “‘Did They Never See Anyone Angry Before?’: The Sexual Politics Of Self-Control in Alcott’s ‘A Whisper in the Dark.’” Legacy 3. 2: 31–41.