Essays about: "The Crimson Petal and the White"

Found 1 essay containing the words The Crimson Petal and the White.

  1. 1. Deo-Victorian Society in the Neo-Victorian Novel: A Study of Sensory Perceptions in Michel Faber´s The Crimson Petal and the White

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Pepita Eskelin; [2011]
    Keywords : Michel Faber; The Crimson Petal and the White; urban hygiene; smell; vision; sensory perceptions; neo-Victorian novel; prostitution;

    Abstract : This paper explores the contemporary reader´s fascination with the Victorian period focusing on Michel Faber´s neo-Victorian novel The Crimson Petal and the White (2002). By comparing and contrasting various literary elements that link the Victorian novel to contemporary neo-Victorian fiction it simultaneously shows the similarities and differences between the nineteenth-century Victorian sensorium and that of the present day. READ MORE