“…This research considers that both literary pieces, during the XVIII and XIX centuries, established a similar point of view about the gender problem that unmasks relationships between men and women from the Romanticism context in the British and Ecuadorian societies, and it gives us some notions about why these irregular relationships are still persisting but not with the same strength as before, and why they will go little by little vanishing due to the tension in the social imagination and the pressure of modern institutions that push us to make these relationships disappear from the context of the XX and XXI centuries. Power, frictions,
repressions, struggles, myths, prostitution, and
sexual issues are the topics analyzed in these stories in order to get a new perspective of gender relationships that characterizes our occidental societies nowadays.…”
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