(De)figurating the feminine: the vengeful woman figuration in Anne Bannerman’s poetry

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25094/rtp.2024n41a1044

Keywords:

Vengeful woman, Anne Bannerman, Gothic, poetry

Abstract

This article focuses on the introduction of two poems by the barely-known Scottish poet Anne Bannerman, “The Mermaid” (1800) and “The Dark Ladie” (1802), as exponents of what we call the vengeful woman figuration, a recurrent representation in nineteenth-century Britain. These characters use violence as a tool for vengeance, which leads them, in a post-gender perspective, to desexualization. Thus, unsexed, they are able to get rid of a limiting and restrictive feminine towards a more dispersed, rhizomatic experience, which encompasses different feminines.

Author Biographies

Paula P. Ramos, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

Doutoranda em Literaturas de Língua Inglesa - UERJ (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)/CAPES - Rio de Janeiro/Brasil.

Maria Conceição Monteiro, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

Doutora em Literatura Comparada (Universidade Federal Fluminense/Nottingham University) e pós-doutora em Literatura Inglesa (Universidade Estadual Paulista). Professora titular de literaturas de língua inglesa da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil.

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Published

2024-01-28

How to Cite

Pope Ramos, P., & Conceição Monteiro, M. (2024). (De)figurating the feminine: the vengeful woman figuration in Anne Bannerman’s poetry. Texto Poético, 20(41), 171–189. https://doi.org/10.25094/rtp.2024n41a1044