Essays about: "Victorian age"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Victorian age.

1. 1. The Puppets and the Puppet Master : Patriarchal, Victorian Values and Melanie's Coming-of-Age Journey in Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för språk, kultur och interaktion

   Author : Reshah Alazzawi; [2022]
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3. 2. Coming of age in Victorian America : challenging gender roles in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

   University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Lina Killmer; [2021]
   Keywords : Gender roles; feminist criticism; femininity; nineteenth-century literature; coming of age; Little Women; domesticity;

   Abstract : This essay argues that Little Women does not promote breaking stereotypical gender norms and nineteenth century gender roles, contrary to what several critics say. This paper will be using feminist criticism and analyzing two of the novel’s main characters, Meg and Jo, and examining their behavior towards stereotypical gender norms and rules. READ MORE

4. 3. “I’ve a right to think” : A Reading of Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as a Reflection of Early Feminism in the Victorian Era

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   Author : Josephine Flottrong; [2019]
   Keywords : Alice’s adventures in Wonderland; Lewis Carroll; the Victorian era; early feminism; education; equality; emancipation;

   Abstract : In this essay I claim that Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a character who reflects the early feminist movement in the 19th century. By reading Alice in terms of a resemblance to the early feminist activists and the first modern feminist text A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, I explore the idea of Alice’s characteristics being comparable to those values and thoughts which the feminist movement expressed. READ MORE

5. 4. A Paradise Fading : Perceptions of Wild Nature in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Howard Pyle's Story of King Arthur and His Knights

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Li Hedenmalm; [2018]
   Keywords : Alfred Lord Tennyson; Idylls of the King; Howard Pyle; The Story of King Arthur and His Knights; Victorian literature; ecocriticism; nature; wilderness; industrialism; animalisation; nostalgia; paradise;

   Abstract : This thesis explores representations of wild nature in two Arthurian texts – one British and one American – produced in an age characterised by rapid social transformation: Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King (1859-1885) and Howard Pyle’s Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1903). By investigation of the textual descriptions of wilderness and the portrayals of characters living there, the study aims to investigate what attitudes towards unkempt nature are displayed in the two texts. READ MORE

6. 5. Love as Seen in selected poems of  Robert Browning

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Author : Jihad Khalil; [2017]
   Keywords : Victorian age; Browning; Love; Victorian Female;

   Abstract : This study explores the concept of love in some of Browning`s poems during the Victorian era in which he tried to discuss love from his own perspective. Thus the study explains the concept of love which has been a main theme in some of Browning`s poems.  My study will illustrate using the feminist theory. READ MORE