LOVE AND THE MONSTER: WHEN HETEROSEXUAL ROMANTIC LOVE BETRAYS THE SUBJECT IN THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
Journal: OakTrust (Texas A&M University Libraries)
Year: 2020

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the ways heterosexual romantic love deconstructs and threatens the subject in the Victorian novel. The romantic myth that love can consolidate and empower the subject has prevailed in the discourse on love, which the Victorian novel has played an important role in spreading by offering it a popular narrative form. While various media including poems, novels, plays, movies, and songs are intent upon celebrating love’s power to make one whole, unique,