Essays about: "Victorian Era"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words Victorian Era.

  1. 1. Serious Triviality : A Serious Societal Critique in a Trivial Setting in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Fredrik Zadig; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : In the late Victorian era, the British upper-class seemed to have set up their own standard of morals where truthfulness and religious conviction gave way for manners and appearance. Oscar Wilde was an outspoken socialist and talented author who shared his critique towards the ills of this society within his literary works. READ MORE

  3. 2. A Remote Kinship : Using Heart of Darkness to Promote an Anti-Essentialist and Anti-Racist Understanding of Race and Ethnicity in the EFL Classroom

    University essay from

    Author : Rudy Lindberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Heart of Darkness; Race; Essentialism; Anti-essentialism;

    Abstract : Heart of Darkness does raise several issues when used in a teaching context. For instance, the novella depicts the Congolese as primitive, animalistic, ignorant, and superstitious. Thus, it perpetuates racist tropes about Africans that unfortunately still exist today. READ MORE

  4. 3. Where is the "New Woman"? A study of women characters in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Hanna Nilsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Sherlock Holmes; Women; Feminism; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Detective stories are a common part of our society today through literature and television, and the most famous detective of all is undoubtedly Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes stories narrate several mysteries set in the late 19th to mid 20th century, and through the mysteries a large number of men and women are presented. READ MORE

  5. 4. Margaret and the ideal woman: An analysis of the heroine of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South in relation to the female ideal of the Victorian era

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Gustav Rönnhede; [2019]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

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  6. 5. 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