Femininity as a Signifier of Lack and Desire in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White

The Victorian angel in the house is an ideological icon that constitutes the patriarchal society. Sensation novels, which primarily deal with femininity, foreground the representation of the ideal woman. As an archetypal sensation novel, Wilkie Collins’s "The Woman in White," conspicuously reveals t...

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