摘要：This article reads Emma Donoghue's neo-Victorian novel The Sealed Letter (2008) as a postfeminist text that demonstrates the complex ways in which feminist concerns of the nineteenth century persist in the twenty-first-century present. I argue that Donoghue's re-imagining of the Codrington trial fro m 1864 offers a reflexive postfeminist critique of the way in which female gender and sexual norms are culturally produced and maintained. In doing so, I propose that The Sea led Letter exemplifies the means through which Victorian ideas of women, gender, and sexuality prevail, while Donoghue's rewriting o f the case draws important parallels with instances of sexism and misogyny in contemporary culture. In reworking the Codrington affair, the novel illustrates long-standing feminist concerns such the sexual double standard and homophobia that are the renewed subject of postfeminist criticism in the new millennium
关键词：culture; Emma Donoghue; feminism; gender; lesbian ism; postfeminism; ;sexuality; sexism; women
