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Unveiling Objectification: The Gaze And Its Silent Power In The Novels Of Frances Burney, Jennifer Joanne Wingfield
Unveiling Objectification: The Gaze And Its Silent Power In The Novels Of Frances Burney, Jennifer Joanne Wingfield
English Theses
This thesis seeks to portray how an objectifying intra-diegetic gaze influences and constructs the plot devices Frances Burney uses in her four novels: Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla, and The Wanderer. Burney creates a literary reality within her four novels’ narratives and breaks that reality down with the influence of the gazes and judgments of her novels’ characters upon each of her heroines. The gaze is an almost microscopic examination that objectifies and depersonalizes all of Burney’s heroines. Burney shows how the gaze shifts perspectives and manipulates that which it objectifies. Burney places her audience and her heroines into unfamiliar situations and …