Female Protagonists Across the Centuries: Moll Flanders, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Sarah Miles ; Protagonistkinje kroz stoljeća: Moll Flanders, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Sarah Miles

The paper sets out to analyse female protagonists and representations of female sexuality in the British novels written in different historical periods: Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders (18th century), Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles (19th century), and Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair (20th century). The paper explores the status of real women and their sexuality across a three-century span, as well as the reactions of readers and publishers. However, the main focus of the paper is the analysis of the relationships these three heroines have with their sexuality through different har... Mehr ...