Essays about: "Emma Wagner"

Found 1 essay containing the words Emma Wagner.

  1. 1. The Angel in the House: Performing to Gender Expectations with Anne Shirley and Hermione Granger

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Emma Wagner; [2023]
    Keywords : adolescent female characters; the Angel in the House; gender performativity; Anne of Green Gables; Hermione Granger;

    Abstract : This essay explores how adolescent girls in two pieces of children’s fiction are portrayed in children’s literature from the start and end of the 20th century to examine how they perform their gender in relation to expectations as informed by the Angel in the House discourse. Anne of Green Gables and the Harry Potter series were published at the start and end of the twentieth century, and both texts engage with the discourse. READ MORE