臺灣博碩士論文加值系統

本論文旨在探討法蘭西斯‧柏妮《塞西莉亞》中，十八世紀女性在英國社會所面臨的兩難：慈善與貞潔。女主角塞西莉亞雖享有經濟優勢，但當她行善時，常被社會譴責其踰越兩性界線及違反女性合宜舉止。就塞西莉亞而言，慈善與貞潔的糾葛實為棘手的問題。柏妮藉著描繪塞西莉亞的困境，揭露父權社會對女性合宜舉止的束縛及規範，她特殊的寫作方式與洞察力於勾勒慈善與女性貞潔的糾葛中表露無疑。
在討論女人與慈善的議題中，我強調柏妮對慈善的三個關注焦點：儉約、節制情感與實用。在探討女性面臨貞潔的嚴峻考驗中，我呈現柏妮對父權社會桎梏女性合宜舉止的看法。此外，我詳細分析柏妮如何藉她對慈善、貞潔及女性合宜舉止的矛盾態度，巧妙地顛覆及超脫父權對女性的宰制。歸功於柏妮精湛呈現女性的進退兩難，本論文探討十八世紀英國社會中慈善與女性貞潔的糾葛得以完善。

In my thesis, I try to explore the double bind of charity and chastity in Frances Burney’s Cecilia. Charity’s entanglement with chastity is a knotty problem for Cecilia. When Cecilia practices charity, her charity is often associated with sexual transgression and incompatible with feminine propriety. By portraying Cecilia’s difficulty of maintaining both her charity and chastity without being censured, Burney exposes eighteenth-century women’s predicaments imposed by the norm of feminine propriety in patriarchal society. Burney’s manipulation of the interrelation and conflict between charity and chastity show her great insight and distinctive ways of writing.
In the analysis of women and charity, I emphasize Burney’s three major concerns about charity: economy, “controlled sensibility” and utility. In discussing women’s crucible of chastity, I underline Burney’s depiction of patriarchal fetters on women’s feminine propriety. In addition, I specify how Burney’s ambivalence toward charity and chastity and how feminine propriety are used as a clever disguise by Burney to subvert and transcend patriarchal strictures on women. This thesis’s focus on the complicated entanglement of charity and chastity and its implication for our understanding of eighteenth-century English society are forwarded by Burney’s delicate representation of the double bind.

Table of Contents




Introduction 1
Chapter 1
Charity and Chastity in the Eighteenth Century 4
Chapter 2
Charity and Women in Cecilia 31
Chapter 3
The Crucible of Chastity in Cecilia 68
Conclusion 104
Works Cited 108

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