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2025-06
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Due to his exploitation of the theme of female death, Edgar Allan Poe has often been branded a misogynist and a supporter of the patriarchal ideology that dominated the first half of nineteenth-century America. However, an alternative reading of Poe's gothic tales might reveal quite the opposite: a deeply tormented and frustrated man who empathized with the female subaltern and who found in literature an incendiary platform to channel a harsh social critique against the discrimination and denigration suffered by contemporary women.
Therefore, in order to debunk traditionally held perspectives on Poe, the primary aim of this study will be to analyze how the author portrayed the dialectical conflict that conditioned gender relationships in his contemporary society, by redefining death as a virgin space for female self-transformation and a place for women to reclaim their long deprived agency and to gain empowerment.
Therefore, the present dissertation aims to explore Poe's gothic heroines' transitional journey from submission to full self-realization, by exploring the detrimental and castrating effects that the legitimate patriarchal discourse had on both women and men.
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death, doppelganger, Edgar Allan Poe, female empowerment, subaltern
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Del Pozo Muñoz, María. Trabajo fin de Máster: "Female empowerment through death: Women's journey from subalternity to self-realization in Poe's gothic tales". Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), 2025
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Facultad de Filología
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Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas