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Neo-Victorian Materialisms in John Fowles’s The Collector

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Neo-Victorian Materialisms in John Fowles’s The Collector

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While John Fowles’s (1926-2005) TheFrench Lieutenant’s Woman(1969) is studied frequently as a neo-Victorian novel, his first published novel, The Collector(1963), is ignored in the critical analyses of neo-Victorian studies. This is mostly due to the fact thatThe Collector is neither a re-writing of a Victorian novel nor sets in the nineteenth century. However, a critical reading of the novel demonstrates how Fowles explicitly manifests the continuation of the Victorian materialist obsession in this particular novel. In other words, albeit the contemporary setting of the novel and the critical appreciation of it as a feminist fiction, the protagonist, Clegg’s obsession with the material objects echoes Victorian cultural materialisation in a way that leads him to collect butterflies and women. Drawing an analogy between these two collections, it is mostly argued by the critics that Fowles discusses the issues of gender in this particular novel. From a different perspective, it will be argued in this study that Fowles actually illustrates the obsession with the material objects with respect to both the dead butterfly collection and also to the commodification of the female body as the material object. From this vantage point, the aim of this study is to analyse The Collector as a neo-Victorian novel revisiting the material culture of the Victorian period and the repercussions of the traumatic relationship between the human and the object in the twentieth century. 

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Kaynakça

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Ayrıntılar

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Konular

Edebi Çalışmalar

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

31 Aralık 2019

Gönderilme Tarihi

28 Temmuz 2019

Kabul Tarihi

8 Kasım 2019

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2019 Cilt: 18

Kaynak Göster

APA
Akkülah Doğan, E. (2019). Neo-Victorian Materialisms in John Fowles’s The Collector. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 18, 130-138. https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.597690
AMA
1.Akkülah Doğan E. Neo-Victorian Materialisms in John Fowles’s The Collector. GAUN-JSS. 2019;18:130-138. doi:10.21547/jss.597690
Chicago
Akkülah Doğan, Emine. 2019. “Neo-Victorian Materialisms in John Fowles’s The Collector”. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 18 (Aralık): 130-38. https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.597690.
EndNote
Akkülah Doğan E (01 Aralık 2019) Neo-Victorian Materialisms in John Fowles’s The Collector. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 18 130–138.
IEEE
[1]E. Akkülah Doğan, “Neo-Victorian Materialisms in John Fowles’s The Collector”, GAUN-JSS, c. 18, ss. 130–138, Ara. 2019, doi: 10.21547/jss.597690.
ISNAD
Akkülah Doğan, Emine. “Neo-Victorian Materialisms in John Fowles’s The Collector”. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 18 (01 Aralık 2019): 130-138. https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.597690.
JAMA
1.Akkülah Doğan E. Neo-Victorian Materialisms in John Fowles’s The Collector. GAUN-JSS. 2019;18:130–138.
MLA
Akkülah Doğan, Emine. “Neo-Victorian Materialisms in John Fowles’s The Collector”. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, c. 18, Aralık 2019, ss. 130-8, doi:10.21547/jss.597690.
Vancouver
1.Emine Akkülah Doğan. Neo-Victorian Materialisms in John Fowles’s The Collector. GAUN-JSS. 01 Aralık 2019;18:130-8. doi:10.21547/jss.597690