{"id":2399,"date":"2011-01-12T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/article\/subverzija-roda-i-viktorijana-u-noveli-morpho-eugenia-a-s-byatta\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:57:15","slug":"subverzija-roda-i-viktorijana-u-noveli-morpho-eugenia-a-s-byatta","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/article\/subverzija-roda-i-viktorijana-u-noveli-morpho-eugenia-a-s-byatta\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Subversion and Victoriana in A. S. Byatt\u2019s \u201cMorpho Eugenia\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article explores the concept of Victoriana and its relationship to the Victorian as presented in A. S. Byatt\u2019s novella \u201cMorpho Eugenia\u201d from Angels and Insects (1992). The analysis is done on two levels: firstly, on the level of form, or different narrative strategies that Byatt is using in order to make her text \u201cVictorian.\u201d Secondly, the article detects, explores and describes those aspects of Victoriana in \u201cMorpho Eugenia\u201d which relate to the gender roles and relationships of its three central characters: William Adamson, Eugenia Alabaster and Matty Crompton. The argument is based on the supposition that Byatt uses Adamson\u2019s character in order to both alienate the reader from and attract her\/him to the text by reversing the gender roles and subverting our expectations of \u201cVictorian\u201d fiction. By choosing the \u201cNew Woman\u201d Matty over the \u201cOld Woman\u201d Eugenia, Adamson\u2019s character confirms and promotes the progressive worldviews thus addressing not only the Victorian time but our own time (and expectations) as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article explores the concept of Victoriana and its relationship to the Victorian as presented in A. S. Byatt\u2019s novella \u201cMorpho Eugenia\u201d from Angels and Insects (1992). The analysis is done on two levels: firstly, on the level of form, or different narrative strategies that Byatt is using in order to make her text \u201cVictorian.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1908,"menu_order":0,"template":"","tags":[2153,97,1496,279,2154,2155],"class_list":["post-2399","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-gender-roles","tag-intertextuality","tag-postmodernism","tag-subversion","tag-text","tag-victoriana-victorian"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}