{"id":6870,"date":"2010-01-07T05:01:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T09:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=6870"},"modified":"2010-01-07T05:01:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T09:01:26","slug":"jonathan-allan-northrop-fryes-virginity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/01\/07\/jonathan-allan-northrop-fryes-virginity\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Allan: Northrop Frye&#8217;s Virginity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6874\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/01\/millais-preraphaelite-ophelia.jpg\" alt=\"millais-preraphaelite-ophelia\" width=\"437\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/01\/millais-preraphaelite-ophelia.jpg 682w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/01\/millais-preraphaelite-ophelia-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Millais&#8217;s Ophelia, 1852<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em><strong>Jonathan Allan, a doctoral candidate in English at University of Toronto, will be joining us as a byline correspondent<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As I\u00a0complete the closing chapters of my dissertation and begin an extensive revision, I realize that I have an ongoing debate with Frye in my own notebooks: a debate that unfortunately does not unfold in the dissertation.\u00a0 There is one point of contention that I run up against over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>Frye writes of the \u201cmagical emphasis on virginity [in romance], the fact that virgins can do things others can\u2019t\u201d (<em>CW<\/em> XV:219, 236); he adds that \u201cvirginity is somehow in tune with an unfallen version of the world itself\u201d (<em>CW<\/em> XV:219).\u00a0 More specific to my own concerns is Frye\u2019s observation that \u201cthis prudery [about virginity in romance] is structural, not moral\u201d (<em>CW<\/em> XV:187).\u00a0 Most of these notions find their way into <em>The Secular Scripture<\/em> in which Frye writes that \u201capart from the idealizing of the pre-sexual state, there is a sense in which virginity is an appropriate image for attaining original identity: what is objectively untouched symbolizes what is subjectively contained so to speak\u201d (153; <em>CW<\/em> XVIII:101).\u00a0 Earlier in <em>The Secular Scripture<\/em>, Frye writes: \u201cone can, of course, understand an emphasis on virginity in romance on social grounds.\u00a0 In the social conditions assumed, virginity is to a woman what honor is to a man, the symbol of the fact that she is not a slave.\u00a0 Behind all the \u2018fate worse than death\u2019 situations that romance delights in, there runs the sense that a woman deprived of her virginity, by any means except a marriage she has at least consented to, is, to put it vulgarly, in an impossible bargaining position.\u00a0 But the social reasons for the emphasis on virginity, however obvious, are still not enough for understanding the structure of romance\u201d (73; <em>CW<\/em> XVIII:49-50).\u00a0 It is clear that virginity becomes a central aspect of the romance structure and that the role of virginity is not moral.\u00a0 However, if this is really indeed the case, why has Frye gendered virginity?\u00a0 Why is virginity uniquely concerned with the female subject?<\/p>\n<p>The romance as a generic model does not preclude the hero from being a virgin or virginal; thus, it seems imperative to ask why this model of purity is not ascribed to both the male and female if it only serves a structural goal?\u00a0 Indeed, if one looks to contemporary fiction, it might be demonstrated that the \u201cvirginal\u201d male is certainly present: Stephenie Meyer\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twilight_(series)\" target=\"_blank\">Twilight<\/a> <\/em>goes to great pains to ensure the virginity of its hero; likewise, in a recent review of Dan Brown\u2019s latest opus, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Lost_Symbol\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Lost Symbol<\/em>,<\/a> Maureen Dowd notes: \u201c[e]ven though Katherine seems like [Robert] Langdon\u2019s soul mate \u2013 she even knows how to <em>weigh<\/em> souls \u2013 their most torrid sex scenes consist of Robert winking at her or flashing her a lopsided grin.\u201d\u00a0 There are surely dozens of examples of this virginal behaviour that extends beyond the female to the male.\u00a0 It is likely there is debate about whether the male virgin even exists \u2013 two recent books on the subject would certainly cast doubt upon such a notion; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hanne_Blank\" target=\"_blank\">Hanne Blank\u2019s <\/a><em>Virgin: The Untouched History<\/em> (2007) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2007\/oct\/20\/biography.society\" target=\"_blank\">Anke Bernau\u2019s <\/a><em>Virgins: A Cultural History<\/em> (2007) seem to evade the question entirely and only refer to it when absolutely necessary.<\/p>\n<p>If virginity affords the heroine \u201cmagical powers,\u201d what is the source of the \u201cmagical powers\u201d of the hero?\u00a0 In upcoming work, I aim to reconsider the question of virginity in Northrop Frye\u2019s theorisations of romance; however, such a study, as I am quickly learning, requires a re-reading of the very notion of virginity precisely because cultural historians seem not to recognize the very possibility of such a notion.\u00a0 In this regard, it is hardly surprising that Frye should not have considered the question of the hero being virginal.\u00a0 This question of virginity, of course, is not unique to the amorous romance novel alone; one need only think as far as <em>Treasure Island<\/em> wherein one could define the island itself as virginal \u2013 though most of the male characters seem rather virginal as well.\u00a0 One might also consider a tale like <em>Peter Pan<\/em> as yet another example of the virginal hero; however, in the case of <em>Peter Pan<\/em> there is a movement towards asexuality or a sexless identity.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the question that I keep returning to is: how can virginity be structural alone and not also part of a greater moral concern?\u00a0 The romance need not offer a defence of abstinence \u2013 as is the case of Meyer\u2019s <em>Twilight<\/em> \u2013 but virginity must, and I would argue does, serve some purpose beyond the structure of the narrative.\u00a0 The only way, I would imagine, that virginity could serve some structural purpose alone \u2013 one that allows for magical things to happen \u2013 is if this virginity existed in both hero and heroine.\u00a0 For this virginity to exist, it must also be recognized, and therein lies the problem \u2013 how does one account for this seeming paradox in Frye\u2019s theory of romance?\u00a0 Thus, the question that now haunts my current research (and as I begin to finish my dissertation with better questions than when I started) is about the nature and theory of virginity in the romance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Millais&#8217;s Ophelia, 1852 Jonathan Allan, a doctoral candidate in English at University of Toronto, will be joining us as a byline correspondent As I\u00a0complete the closing chapters of my dissertation and begin an extensive revision, I realize that I have an ongoing debate with Frye in my own notebooks: a debate that unfortunately does 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