Female empowerment in eighteenth century England : an investigation into the heroines of Frances Burney’s "Evelina" and Eliza Haywood’s "Fantomina"

Female empowerment in eighteenth century England : an investigation into the heroines of Frances Burney’s "Evelina" and Eliza Haywood’s "Fantomina"

This paper sets out to explore how two eighteenth century female authors reached out to and empowered meighteenth century women who struggled in a predominantly male-oriented culture. Using two primary works, Eliza Haywood’s novel Fantomina; Or, Love in a Maze and Frances Burney’s Evelina, or the Hi...

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Main Author: Khoo, Jiaxin
Other Authors: Asst Prof Samara Cahill
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2014
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-619172019-12-10T14:17:37Z Female empowerment in eighteenth century England : an investigation into the heroines of Frances Burney’s "Evelina" and Eliza Haywood’s "Fantomina" Khoo, Jiaxin Asst Prof Samara Cahill School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English This paper sets out to explore how two eighteenth century female authors reached out to and empowered meighteenth century women who struggled in a predominantly male-oriented culture. Using two primary works, Eliza Haywood’s novel Fantomina; Or, Love in a Maze and Frances Burney’s Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, I attempt to highlight Haywood’s and Burney’s contribution to female empowerment in eighteenth century England, through their heroines’ successful negotiation of societal issues, which defied the traditional gender roles of their time, and asserted women’s access to power in the social sphere. Bachelor of Arts 2014-12-05T06:32:09Z 2014-12-05T06:32:09Z 2014 2014 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/61917 en Nanyang Technological University 32 p. application/msword
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Female empowerment in eighteenth century England : an investigation into the heroines of Frances Burney’s "Evelina" and Eliza Haywood’s "Fantomina"
description This paper sets out to explore how two eighteenth century female authors reached out to and empowered meighteenth century women who struggled in a predominantly male-oriented culture. Using two primary works, Eliza Haywood’s novel Fantomina; Or, Love in a Maze and Frances Burney’s Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, I attempt to highlight Haywood’s and Burney’s contribution to female empowerment in eighteenth century England, through their heroines’ successful negotiation of societal issues, which defied the traditional gender roles of their time, and asserted women’s access to power in the social sphere.
author2 Asst Prof Samara Cahill
author_facet Asst Prof Samara Cahill
Khoo, Jiaxin
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author Khoo, Jiaxin
author_sort Khoo, Jiaxin
title Female empowerment in eighteenth century England : an investigation into the heroines of Frances Burney’s "Evelina" and Eliza Haywood’s "Fantomina"
title_short Female empowerment in eighteenth century England : an investigation into the heroines of Frances Burney’s "Evelina" and Eliza Haywood’s "Fantomina"
title_full Female empowerment in eighteenth century England : an investigation into the heroines of Frances Burney’s "Evelina" and Eliza Haywood’s "Fantomina"
title_fullStr Female empowerment in eighteenth century England : an investigation into the heroines of Frances Burney’s "Evelina" and Eliza Haywood’s "Fantomina"
title_full_unstemmed Female empowerment in eighteenth century England : an investigation into the heroines of Frances Burney’s "Evelina" and Eliza Haywood’s "Fantomina"
title_sort female empowerment in eighteenth century england : an investigation into the heroines of frances burney’s "evelina" and eliza haywood’s "fantomina"
publishDate 2014
url http://hdl.handle.net/10356/61917
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