文档介绍：分类号 I712 单位代码 10447
密级无研究生学号 T05043
硕士学位论文
论文题目 A Feministic Reading of C. P. Gilman’s
Female Gothic The Yellow Wallpaper
研究生姓名夏伯乔
专业名称英语语言文学
指导教师姓名刘风山副教授
学院外国语学院
论文提交日期 2010 年 4 月
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Abstract
The Yellow Wallpaper is the masterpiece of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a well-known
American feminist pioneer and writer. And this feminist novel is also one representative
of female gothic. Since gothic fiction emerged, it has been closely associated with
women. Although the male writer created the gothic genre, women have played an
irreplaceable role in its advancement. They bine gothic fiction with
feminism.
Female gothic has its own features which are different from the gothic works
written by male writers in their nature of subversiveness and covertness. Beside its use of
different narrative techniques, female gothic has subverted the traditional dichotomy
created by logo centrism and changed the female images created by male writers. The
images of madwomen and female ghosts pletely subverted people‘s negative
prejudice against women in male gothic. And female gothic always presents the female
self-consciousness of the heroine through the conflicts between the heroine and the hero.
As for its covertness, female gothic tries to express women gothic writers‘ desire to
subvert patriarchy in a way unpalatable to male readers.
In Gilman‘s The Yellow Wallpaper, the subversiveness and covertness are unique.
Gilman challenges the patriarchal culture with a unique method of disco