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100 1 $aWeltman, Sharon Aronofsky,$d1957-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98036030
245 10 $aRuskin's mythic queen :$bgender subversion in Victorian culture /$cSharon Aronofsky Weltman.
260 $aAthens, Ohio :$bOhio University Press,$c1998.
300 $axi, 214 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 189-206) and index.
505 00 $gI.$tMyths That Matter.$g1.$tIntroduction.$g2.$tTheories of Gender, Myth, and Discourse --$gII.$tNineteenth-Century Mythmaking.$g3.$tVictorian Mythographers: Philology to Feminism.$g4.$tLamia and Beyond: Androgyny as Gender Subversion --$gIII.$tJohn Ruskin's Mythology of Gender.$g5.$t"Be No More Housewives, but Queens": Queen Victoria in Ruskin's Domestic Mythology.$g6.$tGender and the Architectonics of Metaphor: Ruskin's Pathetic Fallacy in The Ethics of the Dust.$g7.$tAthena and the Feminization of Language.
520 $aJohn Ruskin's prominence as the author of "Of Queen's Gardens," his principal statement of Victorian gender opposition, makes him an ideal example for analyzing the power of mythic discourse to undermine gender division. Here, Ruskin creates a vision of feminine authority that draws simultaneously upon several sources (including the goddess Athena and Queen Victoria herself) to empower women in a worldwide arena redefined as a broader version of their domestic realm.
520 8 $aIn Ruskin's effort to promote women's expanded sphere of action, his mythmaking goes further than he anticipates: Ruskin feminizes both metaphor and language, and finally destabilizes the very notion of gender.
520 8 $aRuskin's Mythic Queen demonstrates that Victorian authors and artists used myth to challenge their culture's rigid gender dichotomy. While Ruskin is usually seen as the most articulate advocate of nineteenth-century England's sharply differentiated gender roles, Sharon Weltman shows that his mythopoetic prose yields many tools to break down fixed categories of gender.
600 10 $aRuskin, John,$d1819-1900$xPolitical and social views.
650 0 $aFeminism and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103669
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107031
650 0 $aEnglish literature$xGreek influences.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043832
650 0 $aMythology, Greek, in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005195
650 0 $aGender identity in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004327
650 0 $aSocial norms in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008634
650 0 $aSex role in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120668
650 0 $aQueens in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008434
650 0 $aMyth in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85089366
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