SHOWALTER Hameed Abdulameer Hameed Alkhafaji

Аннотация

INTRODUCTION understand the loftier side of a man's nature," The chapter V highlights the feminine perspective Therefore women's men were all absurd, of women novelists when they present the man in contemptible and unrealistic; all were either angels their novels. In another word, the novelists have or devils. described the man through “female glasses” which didn’t care much of the realty. That’s why the term On third hand, the woman’s man characteristics “Woman’s Man” has embodied what mentioned were different on term of the nature of era and recently. impacts of that time including social and political dimensions which may be different as known. As a The chapter has also shown many examples about result, there are many terms we could apply to the how the women novelists have dealt with the man tradition of these heroes of woman : light and dark, personality depending on the personal viewpoints conservative and radical, classical and romantic. of novelists towards the man. Moreover, Margaret Oliphant admitted to her The author, Elaine Showalter, has explained that, friend Isabella Blackwood: "The men of a woman's by the 1850s the "woman's man," impossibly pious writing are always shadowy individuals, and it is and desexed, or impossibly idle and oversexed, had only members of our own sex that we can fully become as familiar a figure in the feminine novel as bring out, bad and good. the governess. The result is that the men in a woman's book are On another hand, some women novelists have always washed in, in secondary colours as George confessed that they didn’t give real reading for Eliot stated. man’s personalities. As a result, Mrs. Linton thought it is "impossible for a woman to Also, the women novelists have used their https://www.theamericanjournals.com/index.php/tajiir 5 THE USA JOURNALS THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY INNOVATIONS AND RESEARCH (ISSN- 2642-7478) VOLUME 06 ISSUE06 imagination to create a model hero to meet their Elaine Showalter added that Most of the religious fantasy and desires. The model hero was even less novels by male authors during the middle of the the product of adulation than of ignorance. To a century were in fact by clergymen, who saw the considerable degree, he was the projection of potential of the genre for religious propaganda and women's fantasies about how they would act and moral suasion. feel if they were men. An interesting novel that appeared in 1869 Also, the chapter has focused on the contains one of the clearest expositions of this differentiations between the eras like Victorian and process of emotional education through symbolic mid-Victorian and how the novelists highlighted role-reversal. In Florence Wilford's Nigel Bartram's the emotions of the society towards the role of man Ideal, the heroine, Marian Hilliard, is a novelist and woman. obviously modeled on Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot. She has written an anonymous best seller On other hand the religious novels, which adopted called Mark's Dream, a book that no one can believe spreading the concepts and instruction of church is from a woman's pen. Marian, who is restoring a inside the society, has also given different church with her profits from the book, is a quiet, ideologies to understand the nature of man and retiring person whom no one suspects even of women depending on the religious perspectives. intelligence, much less genius. She carries Eliot's The religious novels have shed lights on the ideal of unpretentious female culture to its “Clergyman” who represents the spiritual extremes of self-abnegation. fatherhood and the perfect personality who lead to virtue and then to heaven. The writer, Saturday Review, observed in 1859, REFERENCE "the English Clergyman is a person who can be 1. Showalter, E. (1977). A Literature of Their easily worked up into a hero or an ideal. He is a Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to gentleman, he is going to Heaven, he may make Lessing: Feminine Heroes. Princeton love. He has the attractions of both worlds." University Press. https://www.theamericanjournals.com/index.php/tajiir 6