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1. Coming of age in Victorian America : challenging gender roles in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women
University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : 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
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2. Room for Thought: Privacy and the Private Home in Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Modernism is often connected to the public sphere due to its associations with urbanity and technological changes. But interiority and private life was as important to modernity and, in particular, in Virginia Woolf’s writing. READ MORE
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3. In Search of Firmness-Parenting and Education in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield
University essay from Engelska institutionenAbstract : Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield abounds with fatherless and motherless children, whose development into adolescence and adulthood is strongly affected by the parenting skills of the remaining parent. This essay studies different parenting and educational practices in the novel to see their impact on the behaviour and personality of the children. READ MORE
