Béatrice Laurent, Water and Women in the Victorian Imagination
Béatrice Laurent’s book is a well-documented study that focusses on the relation between woman and water during the Victorian period. The starting point of her inquiry is ‘that water became gendered at the same time as women were perceived as the natural possessors of, and made to adopt, fluid qual...
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
2022
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| Izvleček: | Béatrice Laurent’s book is a well-documented study that focusses on the relation between woman and water during the Victorian period. The starting point of her inquiry is ‘that water became gendered at the same time as women were perceived as the natural possessors of, and made to adopt, fluid qualities such as adaptability, or intuitiveness’ (2). In order to illustrate her claim, the author assembles a large corpus of various ‘objects’—texts, paintings, material objects and even processes—f... |
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