Essays about: "Victorian Fiction"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Victorian Fiction.

  1. 1. Re-Imagining the Victorian Woman: Female Representations in Four Neo-Victorian Novels from 1990 to 2010

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Guðrún Valdimarsdóttir; [2015]
    Keywords : optimism.; nostalgia; authorship; fictional autobiography; Women s writing; Sexuality; Morgan; Starling; Byatt; Waters; Women in fiction; Historical fiction; Fiction; Neo-Victorianism; Neo-Victorian; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Neo-Victorian literature is a subgenre of historical fiction that is set during the reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 until 1901. There are divergent opinions on the emergence of the genre; however, the time frame established in this dissertation spans from 1990 until the present moment. READ MORE

  3. 2. Steeling the Show : A Comparative Analysis Between Victorian and Neo- Victorian Heroines From a Feminist Perspective in Terms of Gender Equality

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping

    Author : Marcus Asplund Brattberg; [2014]
    Keywords : Blood in the Skies; G.D. Falksen; comparative literature; Victorian; Neo-Victorian;

    Abstract : In this essay, the concept of gender equality is explored in terms of progressive heroines in neo-Victorian literature. In order to elucidate in what way a progression has been made, the comparative analysis is predicated upon second wave feminism. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Fear of the Fall: Degeneration and Social Inequality in the Frame Narrative of H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Sissel Hanström; [2013]
    Keywords : Degeneration; time travel; H.G. Wells; frame narrative; social difference; The Time Machine; Victorian society;

    Abstract : H. G Wells’s novel The Time Machine is a significant work of science fiction that dramatizes the themes of degeneration and social inequality, themes that were very relevant during the Victorian era in relation to the discovery of evolution. READ MORE

  5. 4. 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

  6. 5. A "Toy-Box History" or "Rivers of Knowledge" : A Study of Female Intellectuality in George Eliot's Middlemarch and Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Mette Sjölin; [2008]
    Keywords : Eliot; George; Sayers; Dorothy L.; Victorian novels; viktorianska romaner; detective novels; detektivromaner; intellectuality; women; fiction; intellektualitet; kvinnor; fiktion; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The aim of this essay is to examine in what ways fiction is used as a forum for discussing female intellectuality in George Eliot's Middlemarch and Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night. READ MORE