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The alternative Alices of Christina Rossetti, Jean Ingelow, and Juliana Horatia Ewing

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Author(s):
Guilherme Magri da Rocha
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: Assis. 2017-02-13.
Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Assis
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Advisor: Cleide Antonia Rapucci
Abstract

This thesis was carried out to suggest one possibility of reading Mopsa the Fairy (1869), "Amelia and the Dwarfs" (1870), and Speaking Likenesses (1874), respectively written by Jean Ingelow (1820-1897), Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841-1885), and Christina Rossetti (1830-1894). We suggest a comparison between these texts and their common hypotext, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898). The methodological approach we propose is based on narratology, and is intended to reflect on the revisions of this classic made by these authors. For a better understanding of the sociocultural context in which the Alice books and their hypertexts appear, the "Golden Age of Children's Literature" - a period that runs from 1864 to the First World War - will first be considered. Also, throughout the development of this research, we‘ve realized the need to construct a biobibliography of the aforementioned women writers, as there is a lack of written sources and bibliographical and biographical information about Ewing and Ingelow in Brazilian Portuguese. In order to achieve our goals, considering the importance of the rediscovery of non-canonical voices in the expansion of the concept of literary canon, the section devoted to the authors posits Elaine Showalter‘s theory of gynocriticism as the basics for our discussion. This same approach is also used in Rossetti's case, even though there is a minimal literature about her in our country. Thus, this study is organized according to the following topics: 1. the context of production of Lewis Carroll‘s texts, and its writing process; 2. the investigation about the life and works of Jean Ingelow, Christina Rossetti, and Juliana Horatia Ewing; 3. the discussion of the selected texts and their common hypotext. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 14/21627-4 - Flora, Jack and Amelia: alternative Alices by victorian women writers
Grantee:Guilherme Magri da Rocha
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master