A INFIDELIDADE DA MULHER MONSTRUOSA: A SUBVERSÃO DE PADRÕES DE FEMINILIDADE EM ZOFLOYA, OR THE MOOR (1806), DE CHARLOTTE DACRE

Authors

  • Paula Pope Ramos Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Keywords:

Gothic poetics, gender, monster, violence, sexuality

Abstract

This work is dedicated to investigating how the violent woman, as a body unfaithful to the standards of femininity required of her class, subverts the docility and fragility of the so-called fair sex for her benefit. In doing so, by transposing the limits imposed on her and guaranteeing agency over her life, this woman undoes her position as an object in society and builds herself as a powerful and sovereign subject. To this end, this article rescues the gothic author Charlotte Dacre and her most celebrated work, Zofloya, or the Moor: a romance of the 15th-century (1806), to analyse how its protagonist, Victoria di Loredani, whom due to her cruelty and intense sexuality, plunges into her dark face and monsterises herself in order to conquer her desires. This process, however, is productive, because in doing so she opens her life to more active and free experiences so that she enjoys it fully.

Author Biography

Paula Pope Ramos, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Pesquisadora da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

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Published

2021-06-05

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Ramos, P. P. . (2021). A INFIDELIDADE DA MULHER MONSTRUOSA: A SUBVERSÃO DE PADRÕES DE FEMINILIDADE EM ZOFLOYA, OR THE MOOR (1806), DE CHARLOTTE DACRE . Porto Das Letras, 7(3), 65–79. Retrieved from https://sistemas.uft.edu.br/periodicos/index.php/portodasletras/article/view/11502

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Vol. 7 No. 3 (2021): Portuguese- and English-Language Literatures, Cultures and Politics

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Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa e de Língua Inglesa, Cultura e Política

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