A feminist reading of Byron’s poetry through the lens of Susan Gubar, Sandra Gilbert and Kate Millet

Abstract EN

The ideology of patriarchy has constantly permeated the great masterpieces of far past and the recent outstanding works of today literature equally.

While today the pervasiveness of this ideological way of thinking and its intrusion through literary works is much subtle in accordance to our newly shaped gender consciousness and more difficult to trace, the works past exhibit the ideological subjectivization of this discourse more blatantly.

Stereotyping of women and appropriating imposed roles and duties for them populate the works of past literature and as for understanding the present one is obliged to know his past it is compulsory to read such stereotyping from the perspective of critical theory.

To this aim this paper by applying the feminist theory of Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar and Kate Millet on Lord Byron’s romantic poetry attempts to study the implications of such stereotyping from the vintage point of critical theory.