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The Mirroring of Self in Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets and The Old Manor House

Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Lin, Mei-Ying
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http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw//handle/246246/272188
Abstract
This thesis proposes a cross-genre study of Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets and The Old Manor House to analyze their similitude and inter-referentiality. Most critics tend to separate Smith’s sonnets from her novels, while a cross-genre comparison offers a possibility to examine the author’s construction of subjectivity, which is fluid and volatile. By investigating this challenge against generic boundaries, this study aims to argue for Smith’s subversive proto-feminist stance, a notion foregrounded in Judith Pascoe’s Romantic Theatricality: Gender, Poetry, and Spectatorship. Charlotte Smith is a highly self-aware writer who skilfully manipulates multiple images, voices, and characters to shape a persona saturated with her own feelings and sentiments. In the Elegiac Sonnets, an image of a forlorn and suffering woman is portrayed through numerous roles, among which the depiction of a Gothic heroine resonates with Smith’s Gothic romance The Old Manor House. Similarly, in the novel, the hero Orlando is imbued with a melancholic hue not far from that of the “weeping Charlotte” performed and publicized in both the sonnets and its preface. This deployment of the mirroring symmetry of persona-making, as well as the mix of generic conventions, helps to reveal Smith’s exploration of selfhood and her questioning of the patriarchal traditions.
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Charlotte Smith
the Elegiac Sonnets
The Old Manor House
mirroring
feminism
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