Browsing Articles publicats (Anglès i Lingüística) by Author "Miquel Baldellou, Marta"
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A Case of Transatlantic Intertextuality: Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Edgar Allan Poe
Miquel Baldellou, Marta (Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies (APEAA), 2010)The American scholar Burton R. Pollin established literary connections between Edgar Allan Poe and the Victorian English writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, tracing the influence the latter exerted over many of Poe’s tales ... -
"A series of mere household events": evoking and questioning nineteenth-century ethics of victorian family life in Edgar Allan Poe's tales
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Annie Besant's sexual politics of marriage in Victorian England
Miquel Baldellou, Marta (Instituto Universitario de Estudios de las Mujeres, 2009)La sexualidad victoriana a menudo ha sido considerada como paradigma de templanza y castidad, como reflejo de un periodo en que se enfatizaba el control de la sexualidad y del cuerpo de la mujer como medio para mantener ... -
Coming of age inside, outside the big house, and beyond: a poetics of ageing and decay throungh John Banville's Birchwood
Miquel Baldellou, Marta (Universidad de La Laguna, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2008)John Banville retoma las convenciones que caracterizaron al género de la Big House en la literatura irlandesa para cambiarlas y dotarlas de una forma que las hiciera más convenientes al postmodernismo. A lo largo de ... -
Demonising the Victorian Heroine's Coming-of-Age in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Lucretia and Edgar Allan Poe's Tales
Miquel Baldellou, Marta (Universidad de Almería, 2008)In Victorian times, the female subject, as embodiment of domestic morality, contributed to the construction of middle-class ideology. In Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel Lucretia (1846), the female protagonist apparently ... -
Europeanised Americans and Americanised Europeans: (Re)Envisioning Henry James’ Daisy Miller and Washington Square within Transatlantic Studies
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Foretelling darwinism, revising race : Poe's scientific discourse in "The murders in the rue Morgue"
Miquel Baldellou, Marta (Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de La Laguna, 2013)Having recently celebrated the bicentenary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth, his tales still remain an invaluable source of ongoing interpretation. The first tale that conforms his detective trilogy, “The Murders in the Rue ... -
From Boys to Men in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Pelham and Horatio Alger's Struggling Upward : The Dandy and the Self-Made Man Coming of Age
Miquel Baldellou, Marta (Área de Publicaciones de la Universidad de León, 2008)En la Inglaterra victoriana y la América decimonónica, las narraciones de aventuras se convirtieron en un género privilegiado para inculcar determinados valores a los chicos jóvenes. A pesar de la supuesta universalidad ... -
From pathology to invisibility: age identity as a cultural construct in vampire fiction
Miquel Baldellou, Marta (Universidad de Alicante, Departamento de Filología Inglesa, 2014)A diachronic analysis of the way the literary vampire has been characterised from the Victorian era up to the contemporary period underlines a clear evolution that seems particularly relevant from the perspective of ageing ... -
Growing up through silence: instances of Transatlantic female constraint in Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting
Miquel Baldellou, Marta (University of Valladolid. Department of English, 2006)Anita Desai's novel Anita Desai's novel Fasting, Feasting portrays transatlantic experiences of female constraint on both sides of the Atlantic. Despite the prevalent differences characterising the Indian and American ... -
In the Footsteps of Edward Bulwer-lytton's "Lucretia"Revisiting Victorian Popular Narratives of Madness
Miquel Baldellou, Marta (Universidade de Vigo, 2012)The character of Bertha Mason in CharlotteBrontë’s Jane Eyrehas often been considered theparadigm of ‘the madwoman in the attic’; an archetypearising from Gothic domestic fictionthat would recur ... -
«It reminded me of Poe’s story»: Edgar Allan Poe’s legacy, the ghost story and the American gothic in Richard Matheson’s A Stir of Echoes
Miquel Baldellou, Marta (Univeristat Autónoma de Barcelona, 2014)Pese a que la novela El último escalón (1958) a menudo ha sido eclipsada por otros títulos más conocidos de Richard Matheson tales como Soy leyenda (1954) o El increíble hombre menguante (1956), debería otorgársele la ... -
Leaving Darwing behind? Transcending body, mind and soul through the occult in Edward Bulwer-Lytton´s a strange story
Miquel Baldellou, Marta (Área de Publicaciones de la Universidad de León, 2009)En la novela A Strange Story, concebida como un romance en defensa de lo sobrenatural, Bulwer- Lytton aspira a conducir a su héroe Allen Fenwick hacia la creencia en la existencia del alma. Bulwer- Lytton intenta redimir ... -
Mary Reilly as Jekyll or Hyde : Neo-Victorian (re)creations of Feminity and Feminism
Miquel Baldellou, Marta (Universidad de La Rioja, 2010)In his article “What is Neo-Victorian Studies?” (2008), Mark Lewellyn argues that the term neo-Victorian fiction refers to works that are consciously set in the Victorian period, but introduce representations of marginalised ... -
Masculinities in Distress: Aging and Gender Trouble in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Caxtons
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Passion beyond death? Tracing "Wuthering Heights" in Stephenie Meyer's "Eclipse"
Miquel Baldellou, Marta (Universidad de La Rioja, 2012)Stephenie Meyers’ Twilight tetralogy has lately become an enormously successful phenomenon in contemporary popular fiction, especially among a young adult readership. Regarded as a mixture of genres, the Twilight series ... -
Pet Sematary, or Stephen King Re-Appropriating the Frankenstein Myth
Miquel Baldellou, Marta (Asociación Cultural Mentenebre, 2013)The horror bestseller writer Stephen King has been acknowledged for updating the fundamental motifs of the horror story to suit the taste of contemporary audiences. In his seminal work Danse Macabre (1981), devoted to ... -
Prematurely Aged, Long-Lived: The Effects of Ageing at a Different Pace in Edgar Allan Poe and Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Miquel Baldellou, Marta (Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies (APEAA), 2012)The conceptualisations of the ageing process are culturally and temporally conditioned. Critics such as Teresa Mangum first and Karen Chase later have argued that the Victorians were particularly concerned about ageing and ... -
Pride and Twilight: Updating the Bennet-Darcy Myth?
Miquel Baldellou, Marta (University of Valladolid. Department of English, 2010)El mito Bennet-Darcy, como representante del amor romántico, ha sido explorado en numerosas manifestaciones culturales desde la publicación de la novela Orgullo y Prejuicio de Jane Austen en 1813. No obstante, su retrato ... -
So terribly altered, in so brief a period ": the discourse of ageing in Edgar Allan Poe
Miquel Baldellou, Marta (University of Valladolid. Department of English, 2012)Case of M. Valdemar.” Poe’s concern with his own process of ageing as an individual sheds light on the discourse of ageing in nineteenth-century America, highlighting the contradictory conceptualisations held in relation ...