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Three chapters in the history of femicide
Publication . Madeira, Pedro Daniel Gomes; Figueiredo, João R.; Feijó, António M.
This dissertation describes the genesis of the idea of femicide in a period of English and
American Letters, the last decade of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth
century, in which patriarchal values and constructions were entering a crisis which resulted in the
revision of the idea of gender—in a way, that was the period in which the concept of gender was
coded. In the first chapter, I look at the way the term femicide was first given currency in the
English language in 1827 through Robert Macnish’s The Confessions of an Unexecuted Femicide, a
fiction disguised as a true story, and how it spawned a short-lived literary sub-genre. In the second
chapter, I examine Poe’s reworking of the femicide story, and to the ways in which he has drawn
attention to its Gothic roots. Finally, in the third chapter, I offer a reading of Memoirs of the Author
of ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,’ in which I argue that Godwin’s “sentimentalised” portrait
of Mary Wollstonecraft, and by extension of the female intellectual, constitutes an implicit
refutation of her ideas, and therefore can be profitably compared to the portraits Poe’s femicide
narrators make of Morella and Ligeia in the tales named after them.
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SFRH/BD/90950/2012