19세기 미국의 여성 성장 소설과 젠더 정치학: 수전 워너의 『넓고, 넓은 세상』을 중심으로 = Female Development and Gender Politics of the 19th-Century America: Susan Warner`s The Wide, Wide World

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In the nineteenth century of America when self-development and self-realization are culturally crucial goals, The Wide, Wide World embodies, uncompromisingly, the values of self-abnegation, self-sacrifice, and unconditional submission to authority. The heroine, Ellen Montgomery, gets disciplined to subdue her passionate feelings and to be the True Woman; a person who supplied what was wanting everywhere; unknown, she gave life and harmony to the whole. At the endpoint of disciplinary process, the heroine does not exist for herself at all but only for others; she becomes pious, pure, domestic, and above all, submissive. The text clearly shows how gender ideology and gender politics of the nineteenth century make female development as a kind of bildungsroman in reverse. My point is that Warner`s text is complex enough to refuse to be judged as merely conservative or subversive. Repressive feelings of anger and sense of injustice, and desires of a passionless pious heroine are potentially disruptive of the surface narrative of moral didacticism. The text also reveals that True Womanhood promoted as an ideal for all ``women at home`` against competitive ``men in the market`` proves to be an imperial ideology which normalizes white, middle-class male as proper American citizen. We need to listen to the double, triple voices of so called sentimental women writers of the nineteenth century modern America, which are simultaneously subverting and conforming to or sometimes paradoxically subverting by conforming to the patriarchal standards of the period.

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