| dcterms.contributor.author | Iannone, Dominique | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-01-11T10:57:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-01-11T10:57:08Z | |
| dcterms.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dcterms.identifier.citation | Iannone, Dominique. "Speaking (out) of Silence: The burden of womanhood in Christina Rossetti’s “Monna Innominata” and William Morris’s “The Defence of Guenevere”". «Testi e linguaggi» 17 (2023): 251-269. [Studi monografici Language contact, variation and change across borders: diasporas, mobility, barriers] | it_IT |
| dcterms.identifier.isbn | 978-88-290-1959-5 | it_IT |
| dcterms.identifier.issn | 1974-2886 | it_IT |
| dcterms.identifier.uri | http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/6908 | |
| dcterms.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.14273/unisa-4967 | |
| dc.description.abstract | An era punctuated by contradictions and uncertainty, the Middle Ages represented a powerful looking
glass for the flawed and highly duplicitous Victorian society. Deeply unhappy with the cultural and
aesthetic chaos resulting from the Industrial Revolution, it was not uncommon for Victorian writers to
use medievalism as a means to oppose the belief systems characterising their time. The main concern of
the essay resides in the ideological and thematic similarities in the medievalist poetry of two Victorian
authors: Christina Rossetti and William Morris. Despite them being barely acquainted, the poets
established a literary dialogue revolving around the dichotomy silence/sound and made use of analogous
strategies to resist the unjust confines and limitations enforced on women by nineteenth-century gender
politics. The paper aims to show how the burden of womanhood – a condition endured by Rossetti in
life and in art – prevented the poetess from overtly voicing criticism of the patriarchal literary tradition.
If William Morris, through his “Defence of Guenevere”, openly questioned conventions and succeeded
in articulating female desire, Rossetti, as it is shown by her “Monna Innominata”, found herself tangled in
the cultural attitudes of her time and had to mask what she was articulating. Through the voices of their
medieval heroines, which can still be heard today, both writers engaged in acts of critical ventriloquy to
overturn female passivity and to violate the code of feminine behaviour. | it_IT |
| dcterms.format.extent | P. 251-269 | it_IT |
| dc.language.iso | en | it_IT |
| dcterms.publisher.alternative | Roma: Carocci | it_IT |
| dcterms.source | UniSa. Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneo | it_IT |
| dcterms.subject | Victorian Medievalism | it_IT |
| dcterms.subject | Gender | it_IT |
| dcterms.subject | Morris | it_IT |
| dcterms.subject | Rossetti | it_IT |
| dcterms.subject | The Defence of Guenevere | it_IT |
| dcterms.subject | Monna Innominata | it_IT |
| dcterms.subject | Women’s writing | it_IT |
| dcterms.title | Speaking (out) of Silence: The burden of womanhood in Christina Rossetti’s “Monna Innominata” and William Morris’s “The Defence of Guenevere” | it_IT |
| dcterms.type | Journal Article | it_IT |
| dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Testi e linguaggi | it_IT |
