Car la Lettre tue mais l’Esprit vivifie : une relecture des textes bibliques selon Elizabeth Gaskell by Benjamine Toussaint-Thiriet

“…Indeed, her Unitarian education granted her a greater freedom than most of her contemporaries in terms of biblical exegesis, as we can see in many of her works, but most particularly in Ruth, in which the eponymous heroine, a fallen woman, is not only described as a Magdalen but soon turns into a Madonna and then a Christ-like figure.…”
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Une éducation sentimentale ou le roman d’amour de Salammbô by Geneviève Mondon

“…The unpublished passages, the margins and interlinear additions contribute precious elements to the construction of the heroine’s love story and give it a more erotic tone, before Flaubert deletes, transforms or skillfully conceals these fugitive traces.  …”
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Papa’s Baby, Mama’s Maybe: Reading the Black Paternal Palimpsest and White Maternal Present Absence in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand by Yolanda M. Manora

“…In this article, I locate the narrative absences at the center of Larsen’s first novel, Quicksand, and examine the manner in which they source the relational failures that render the protagonist, Helga Crane, incapable of fulfilling her promise as, in Deborah McDowell’s words, a “daring and unconventional heroine” (xi). Not only does the palimpsestic presence of the black paternal impede Helga’s quest for social legitimacy and place, the present absence of the white maternal, arguably a more critical lacuna, serves as the experiential and psychological source of Helga’s fundamental “lack somewhere”: her failure to develop a relational subjectivity.…”
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Le sentiment d’appartenance dans North and South d’Elizabeth Gaskell by Benjamine Toussaint-Thiriet

“…The sense of belonging is one of the major themes of North and South. Margaret Hale, the heroine, has to leave the rural South, to which she feels her heart truly belongs, twice : first as a child, to be brought up by her aunt in London, and then, as a young woman when she must follow her parents and settle in Milton, an industrial town in the North of England. …”
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The Mystery of the Past Haunts Again: Jane Eyre and Eugenie Marlitt’s Die zweite Frau by Ivonne Defant

“…When it was published in 1847, it made an immediate impact in mid-Victorian England, partly because it drew on the paradigmatic story of a romance heroine, partly because it interpreted the needs of the women of the time. …”
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“No female weakness harbour’d there”: Epic Reframing of the Notorious Queen in Margaret Holford’s Margaret of Anjou: A Poem by Okaycan Dürükoğlu

“…Accordingly, this study focuses on how Holford fashions Margaret of Anjou as an epic hero, and how she subverts the traditional epic tradition with her female heroine.…”
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An Investigation on the Subject of Women in the Thoughts of Anton Chekhov Based on the Latest Story by the Author, The Lady Bride by Zeinab Sadeghi Sahlabad

“…The present study answers the question of who is Chekhov's ideal female heroine. Chekhov's ideal female protagonist was different from other Russian writers. …”
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Portraits de Résistantes (1847-1875) : la femme face au système patriarcal dans quelques romans victoriens by Jacqueline Fromonot

“…However, the eponymous heroine of the earliest novel of the corpus, Jane Eyre, proves strikingly ahead of her time in her systematic defiant refusal of all forms of patriarchal domination—and her overall success in doing so.…”
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Alice’s Non-Anthropocentric Ethics: Lewis Carroll as a Defender of Animal Rights by Anna Kérchy

“…Carroll’s own description of his heroine with positive animal attributes, ‘loving as a dog’ and ‘gentle as a fawn’ (1887) resonates with an ethical agenda outlined in his novels starting out from the multidimensional interspecies relationship that conceives of difference in a non-dualistic, posthumanist deconstructive, Derridean (2008) way. …”
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Theatrical Colours: Cosmetics, Rhetoric and Theatre in Webster’s The White Devil by Natascha WANNINGER

“…Traditionally, these three characters have been respectively regarded as representatives of a fair Petrarchan heroine, of a black villain inside and out and of a woman occupying a literal grey area. …”
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St. John le calviniste, ou l’émule de Gil-Martin by Jean Berton

“…Brontë’s intention was not so much to denounce noxious excesses in religious beliefs as to set her heroine’s wise independence against nefarious male domination: whereas victimised Robert Wringhim is driven to despair and suicide, self-reliant Jane Eyre escapes from St. …”
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Lounging Men, Standing Women: Pose and Posture in the Aesthetic Interior by Richard W. Hayes

“…A key moment in Henry James’s 1881 novel The Portrait of a Lady occurs when the story’s heroine, Isabel, enters the drawing room in her Roman palazzo to find her husband Gilbert Osmond seated and their guest Madame Merle standing. …”
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New Orleans as the city of misfit women in Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938) and The Flame of New Orleans (René Clair, 1941) by Taïna TUHKUNEN

“…More humorously, yet resonating with the iconoclasm of William Wyler’s rebellious neworleansian heroine, René Clair’s satirical film presents us with a Southern city which it not to be confused with Atlanta, Georgia, in these two films representative of the “southern genre”.…”
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Imagist Novel’s Poetics: “Bid Me to Live” by H.D. by Yevheniya Chernokova

“…Friedman), typical for a lyric novel, focuses on the narrative-transformation of heroine at the moment of her deepest personal crisis both in the life of a woman and an artist against the catastrophic background of the First World War.    …”
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Lessons from Deborah’ Inspiration and Implications on the Plight of Women Leadership in A Male Dominated Society: Significances for Today’s World by Rugyendo, Medard

“…Though Deborah was a heroine and the only woman among the twelve (12) judges of Israel, she was not included in the Hall of Faith in the Book of Hebrews 11. …”
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Jane Eyre between the Wars by Patsy Stoneman

“…La distinction que Tania Modleski dresse entre la romance (‘romance’) – dans laquelle la peur ou le dégoût initial de l’héroïne pour le héros se transforme en amour – et le gothique (‘gothic’) – où le processus est inverse – souligne que ces romans modernes ne peuvent envisager autre chose qu’un dénouement gothique à une situation à l’origine romantique. …”
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Personal Construction of Cough Medicine among Young Substance Abusers in Hong Kong by Daniel T. L. Shek

“…Second, although the informants perceived cough medicine to be addictive and harmful, they perceived cough medicine to be less addictive and less harmful than did heroin. Third, while the informants construed cough medicine to be similar to ketamine and marijuana, they also perceived cough medicine to possess some characteristics of heroin. …”
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Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) in a Patient with Opioid Use Disorder by Terence Tumenta, Samuel Adeyemo, Oluwatoyin Oladeji, Oluwole Jegede, Bordes Laurent, Tolu Olupona

“…We report the case of a 36-year-old male with a history of heroin use disorder, who was admitted to our hospital for opioid withdrawal. …”
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Des vitrines sur le roman : les couvertures de Madame Bovary et Salammbô by Bruna Donatelli

“…Our analysis will focus on two works: Madame Bovary and Salammbô, two heroines belonging to separate, if not contrary, chronological and geographical spheres. …”
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Defoe’s Mothers of Alterity : Moll Flanders and Roxana by Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

“…Defoe’s heroines, Moll Flanders and Roxana, are in interesting ways a mixture of diverse Others. …”
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