anding of the power of language to create persistent symbols that ôfixö womenÆs roles and place. Marxism will be depicted as insisting on the unity of the producer and his or her background and a unity between literary work and its audience.
The research questions to be addressed in the study are:
1. What are the key defining characteristics of Victorian
social and literary life, and what do these characteristics
reflect regarding the condition and status of women in the era?
2. What distinguishes Marxist-Feminist literary criticism
from other feminist critical ontologies, and what are the theoretical assumptions and foci of this type
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