Containing Otherness Through Rational Detection: Feminine Characters in Arthur Conan Doyle

• Authors: Elena Maria Emadi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present paper is intended to focus on the feminine characters in The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Sussex Vampire. Starting from the analysis of imagery in these two texts I shall exemplify traits of the complex process of encoding otherness

Keywords

EN

irrational; other; patriarchy; rational; vampire

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 316-322

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-08

Contributors

author

Elena Maria Emadi

• “Ştefan cel Mare” University, Suceava, 13 Universității Street, 720229, Suceava, Romania

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10320-012-0048-z