Eve’s fig-leaf: The Male Narrator, Sophistry and the Loss of Narrative Innocence in The Mill on the Floss

The adoption of a male pseudonym by women writers in the nineteenth century is, as Elaine Showalter has pointed out, a sign of the woman writer’s loss of innocence, of her awareness of the necessity of role playing in order to enter the literary mainstream. In this paper, I intend to examine some of...

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Main Author: Maria Tang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2004-04-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/16622
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