Mythic women in Victorian EnglandCassandra and Florence Nightingale

  1. Monrós Gaspar, Laura
Buch:
Proceedings from the 31st AEDEAN Conference: [electronic resource]
  1. Lorenzo Modia, María Jesús (ed. lit.)
  2. Alonso Giráldez, José Miguel (ed. lit.)
  3. Amenedo Costa, Mónica (ed. lit.)
  4. Cabarcos-Traseira, María J. (ed. lit.)
  5. Lasa Álvarez, Begoña (ed. lit.)

Verlag: Servizo de Publicacións ; Universidade da Coruña

ISBN: 978-84-9749-278-2

Datum der Publikation: 2008

Seiten: 169-179

Kongress: Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. Congreso (31. 2007. A Coruña)

Art: Konferenz-Beitrag

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Zusammenfassung

This paper seeks to examine the transmission of "Cassandra" in Victorian England as a prelude to subsequent reworkings that consider the myth the epitome of the silenced discourse of women. Florence Nightingale's relation to the Cassandra myth both in her personal life and in her essay "Cassandra" (1852) configures the heroine as a model to the vindication of the rights of women. Modern constructions of the myth read it as an archetype of the appropriation of the patriarchal discourse by gender minorities.

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