Essays about: "Victorian novels"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the words Victorian novels.

1. 1. Cultural Clash and Gender Roles : Exploring the Quest for Equality in Jane Eyre and Things Fall Apart

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Anne M Johansson; [2024]
   Keywords : Gender; cultural clash; equality; religion; colonialism; Genus; kulturkrock; jämställdhet; religion; kolonialism;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to analyze the intersectionality between themes of cultural clash and gender roles within the novels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, accentuating their common quest for equality. This essay offers a historical and cultural analysis, divulging the gender norms prevalent in Victorian England and pre-colonial Nigeria, serving as a backstage to the characters’ adaptations and struggles. READ MORE

3. 2. Gothic Masculinity: An Exploration of Masculinity in The Mysteries of Udolpho and Uncle Silas

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Tobias Norén; [2021]
   Keywords : Gothic; Masculinity; Female Gothic; Ann Radcliffe; The Mysteries of Udolpho; Sheridan Le Fanu; Uncle Silas; Sensibility; Fatherhood; Villainy; Fallenness; Fallen Man; Early Gothic; Victorian Gothic; 18th-century; 19th-century; Hegemonic Masculinity; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : By analysing two different Female Gothic novels, this thesis aims to explore the different ways in which masculinity is portrayed within the Female Gothic literary tradition, more specifically the Early Gothic and Victorian Gothic due to constraints in scope. The novels chosen, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and Uncle Silas (1864), are in many ways representative and serve as typical Female Gothic narratives but differ in when they were written and how they utilise gothic tropes to discuss and critique the society within which they were written. READ MORE

4. 3. Gender Construction in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre : A Comparison

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Julia Uusitalo Kemi; [2021]
   Keywords : gender; gender construction; Wuthering Heights; Jane Eyre; gender norms; Emily Brontë; Charlotte Brontë; identity; gender roles; Victorian gender roles; Victorian gender norms; sex; gender; femininity; masculinity;

   Abstract : This essay analyses and compares gender construction in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. The focus is on the construction of the female and male gender of selected female and male characters. READ MORE

5. 4. Bloody Penny Picture Pose : A comparative study on the representation of sexuality and violence within the aesthetics of Victorian Gothic horror

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Modevetenskap

   Author : Julia Bornlöf; [2019]
   Keywords : Victorian; Gothic; horror; female sexuality; feminism; agency; sadomasochism; gender; visual culture; sexual history.;

   Abstract : There is an ongoing fascination with the Victorian era as well as the genre of horror, and the characters originating from the first 18th century Gothic tales still appear in our Western popular culture today. The Victorian Gothic novels contain elements of romanticism and violence which often results in strong undertones of heated sexuality. READ MORE

6. 5. Dealing with Death: The Romanticising of Tuberculosis in Three Victorian Novels

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Lotta Larsson; [2019]
   Keywords : Tuberculosis; romanticising; Elizabeth Gaskell; Charlotte Brontë; North and South; Ruth; Jane Eyre; Disease; Victorian Era; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to investigate whether the characters of Charlotte Brontë’s and Elizabeth Gaskell’s novels Jane Eyre, North and South and Ruth romanticise tuberculosis, how the disease was romanticised, and what qualities the affected characters had to possess to die from the disease. Major and minor characters who contract the disease are scrutinised, as well as the characters surrounding them, to get a satisfactory picture of the romanticising. READ MORE