버지니아 울프의 “침묵에 대한 소설”: 반-구혼소설로서의 『출항』
Virginia Woolf’s “Novel about Silence”: Voyage Out as an Anti-Courtship Novel
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This paper aims to read Virginia Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out, as an anti-courtship novel. The courtship novel, which dealt with the period from the heroine’s entrance into the society to her marriage, helped invoking feminist voices by promoting the heroine’s right to choose her spouse as well as highlighting her personal desires. On the other hand, the courtship novel greatly circumscribed women’s lot by prescribing romantic love and marriage as women’s only destiny and the completion of their identity. Voyage Out seems to repeat the structure of the courtship novel in that it meticulously follows the heroine Rachel Vinrace’s love and engagement. In spite of the seeming resemblance, however, this novel actually subverts the genre of the courtship novel by twisting, parodying and challenging its love-marriage plot in a variety of ways. For example, while the courtship novel glosses over the contradictions and conflicts in the institution of marriage, Woolf exposes the discord and betrayal of the married couples. She also portrays the relationship between the lovers riddled with unease, confusion, latent violence and fight for mastery. The most striking difference, however, is the heroine’s sudden death at the conclusion of the novel. By finishing the novel with the death of the heroine instead of the expected happy marriage, Woolf critiques and disrupts the dominant tradition of the courtship novel along with its idealization of marriage. Delving into the question, “what Rachel wants,” this paper investigates the significance of the heroine’s death in conjunction with Virginia Woolf’s attempt to write a novel of her own style.
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This paper aims to read Virginia Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out, as an anti-courtship novel. The courtship novel, which dealt with the period from the heroine’s entrance into the society to her marriage, helped invoking feminist voices by promoting the heroine’s right to choose her spouse as well as highlighting her personal desires. On the other hand, the courtship novel greatly circumscribed women’s lot by prescribing romantic love and marriage as women’s only destiny and the completion of their identity. Voyage Out seems to repeat the structure of the courtship novel in that it meticulously follows the heroine Rachel Vinrace’s love and engagement. In spite of the seeming resemblance, however, this novel actually subverts the genre of the courtship novel by twisting, parodying and challenging its love-marriage plot in a variety of ways. For example, while the courtship novel glosses over the contradictions and conflicts in the institution of marriage, Woolf exposes the discord and betrayal of the married couples. She also portrays the relationship between the lovers riddled with unease, confusion, latent violence and fight for mastery. The most striking difference, however, is the heroine’s sudden death at the conclusion of the novel. By finishing the novel with the death of the heroine instead of the expected happy marriage, Woolf critiques and disrupts the dominant tradition of the courtship novel along with its idealization of marriage. Delving into the question, “what Rachel wants,” this paper investigates the significance of the heroine’s death in conjunction with Virginia Woolf’s attempt to write a novel of her own style.
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