07.23.10
St Louis Escorts: Ten of the best nameless protagonists in literature
Roxana by Daniel Defoe
Defoe’s “memoir” of an invented 17th-century courtesan has acquired a title that is but one of his anti-heroine’s pseudonyms. “The Fortunate Mistress” (as the novel was originally called) keeps her true name secret, masquerading as a “woman of quality” in order to beguile rich men.
The Aspern Papers by Henry James
The namelessness of James’s narrator seems fitting in a tale of genteel deceit. He tells us of his obsession with a dead poet called Jeffrey Aspern, whose papers may be in the possession of a former lover, now living in Venice. He can only gain these manuscripts by marrying her dowdy niece. What to do?
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A doctor has confined his wife to her bedroom, decreeing that she is suffering from some nervous affliction. She keeps a secret journal, whose entries constitute this short story. Her fevered imagination is fed by patterns in the wallpaper. Her namelessness has made her, for some, a representative of 19th-century womanhood.
See the full article from “The Guardian”