title: Burova I. I., Vasilieva E. V. Emma Bovari’s sisters: doctors’ wives in the Victorian female prose. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2019, 16 (4): 653–672.
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metadata.value: Burova, Irina I.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Vasilieva, Elmira V.
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metadata.value: 2020-02-06T10:16:15Z
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metadata.value: 2020-02-06T10:16:15Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Emma Bovari’s sisters: doctors’ wives in the Victorian female prose
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2019.407
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16999
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metadata.value: The purpose of the essay is to analyze the images of doctors’ wives in the works of British
  women writers during the second half of the 19th century and to consider the main trends in their evolution. The brilliant study by T. Sparks devoted to doctors in British Victorian novels
  imparts the need for considering the images of doctors’ wives in Victorian female fiction. The
  materials for our study included works by E. Gaskell, D. M. Mulock Craik, Mrs. Henry Wood,
  A. I. Thackeray, M. E. Braddon and G. Eliot published between 1851 and 1872. The study shows
  that the image of a doctor’s wife as her husband’s victim, that had dominated in earlier works,
  was quite suddenly replaced by the image of a doctor’s wife destroying her spouse. The transition
  can be explained by the weakening of the positions of Romanticism, decrease of public
  interest in Gothic horrors, and a departure from the glorification of a criminal typical of the
  Newgate novel. At the same time, this change may be explained by the publication of G. Flaubert’s
  Madame Bovary. However, its influence should not be exaggerated, even if an authoress
  (Braddon) overtly recognized the secondariness of her work to it. The rise of the so-called
  ‘First wave’ of feminism should also be taken into consideration as a significant factor influencing
  the evolution of the image of a doctor’s wife in the Victorian novels by women writers.
  Concurrently, their sympathy towards men and their tendency to blame the wives for family
  tragedies are quite unexpected for feminist fiction.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 64; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: 19th-century British novel
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: female prose of the Victorian period
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: doctor’s wife image in fiction
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: first-wave feminism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: domestic violence
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Burova I. I., Vasilieva E. V. Emma Bovari’s sisters: doctors’ wives in the Victorian female prose. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2019, 16 (4): 653–672.
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metadata.value: Article
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