Essays about: "Victorian stereotypes"

Found 4 essays containing the words Victorian stereotypes.

  1. 1. Stereotypical images of women in Dickens’ Great Expectations and Wood’s East Lynne

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Emma Hedman Jonsson; [2021]
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    Abstract : The purpose of this essay was to analyze the stereotypical images of women in Great Expectation by Charles Dickens and East Lynne by Ellen Wood, using feminist literary criticism as a theoretical perspective. The stereotypical images that were found were Cynthia Griffin Wolff’s sentimental stereotype, virtuous woman, the sensuous woman, and liberated woman; and Ferguson’s woman alone, submissive wife and the bitch. READ MORE

  3. 2. Wilde's Women : A feminist study of the female characters in Oscar Wilde’s comedies of manners: Lady Windermere’s Fan, A woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Minon Weber; [2017]
    Keywords : oscar wilde; wilde; comedies of manners; victorian England; society; Victorian Society; patriarchy; feminism; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; Lady Windermere s Fan; Rita Felski; Felski; patriarchal society; transgressing gender boundaries; gender boundaries; fallen woman; fallen women; good women; good woman; stereotypes; theatre; play; plays; comedies; Oscar Wilde feminism; Oscar Wilde plays;

    Abstract : Towards the end of the 19th century, Wilde produced the three comedies that I will focus on in this essay. These plays, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, are all comedies of manners: intelligent dramatic comedies satirising contemporary fashionable circles of society and its manners, as well as social expectations. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Fallen Woman and the Corrupt Aristocrat The Ideological Function of Céline Varens and Blanche Ingram in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Johanna Sylwan; [2015-02-10]
    Keywords : Jane Eyre; Victorian stereotypes; Gender; The Fallen Woman;

    Abstract : Abstract: The aim of this essay is to examine how the minor characters Céline Varens and Blanche Ingram are depicted in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. The essay’s claim is that the minor characters are created to be bad female characters in order to highlight the protagonist Jane Eyre’s position as a female role model and an independent character. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Savage and the Gentleman : A Comparative Analysis of Two Vampire Characters in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

    Author : Ramona Anttonen; [2000]
    Keywords : vampire; Bram Stoker; Anne Rice; Lestat; Dracula; Lombroso; Gothic Fiction; Neo-Gothic Fiction;

    Abstract : The creatures known as vampires have inspired authors for several hundred years. These beings are stereotypically described as belonging to a “nocturnal species” who live “in shadows” and drink “our lives in secrecy” (Auerbach 1). READ MORE