The Catastrophic Grief of De Quincey's 'Lost Girls': The Subversive Females of Confessions and Suspiria | Zendy

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The Catastrophic Grief of De Quincey's 'Lost Girls': The Subversive Females of Confessions and Suspiria

Author(s) -

Tamie Dolny

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

pivot a journal of interdisciplinary studies and thought

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2369-7326

DOI - 10.25071/2369-7326.40257

Subject(s) - grief , dream , emotive , agency (philosophy) , psychoanalysis , power (physics) , literature , psychology , gender studies , philosophy , art , sociology , epistemology , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , psychotherapist

Depicted as hallucinations, hauntings, ghosts and dreams, the females of De Quincey's most controversial prose texts function as proto-feminist entities, where they usurp patriarchal linguistic structures by creating entirely new language systems. De Quincey's delirious dream sequences present a trifecta of female emotive power: analyzed through the feminist lens of de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex," this essay demonstrates how De Quincey's 'lost girls' exceed Gothic supernatural conventions to control the agency of a female-dominated dreamscape.

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