Essays about: "angel in the house"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words angel in the house.

  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

  3. 2. Make Room for the New Woman : The Extinction of the Earth-bound Angel in Three Short Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Kate Chopin

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Julia Hellström; [2023]
    Keywords : Feminist consciousness; gender; space; patriarchy; repression;

    Abstract : This essay explores the feminist message in Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “An Extinct Angel” and “The Yellow Wallpaper”. The relationship between space and gender will be examined in connection with theoretical conceptions of female consciousness. READ MORE

  4. 3. Privilege and Poverty under Patriarchy : An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of the Portrayal of Wives and Mothers in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Louise Olander; [2021]
    Keywords : Elizabeth Gaskell; North and South; the Victorian novel; feminism; intersectionality; marriage; motherhood; class; gender roles; angel in the house;

    Abstract : Building on previous feminist literary criticism of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South (1854-55), this essay analyses the portrayal of wives and mothers in the novel from an intersectional feminist perspective. It examines how the narrative shows that gender and economic status or class intersect to create varied representations of Victorian women's marginalisation. READ MORE

  5. 4. Mina, the "Angel", and Lucy, the "Monster" : two sides of femininity in Bram Stoker's Dracula

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för lärarutbildning

    Author : Julia Bergstrand; [2020]
    Keywords : Gender roles; feminist criticism; Victorian femininity; angel in the house; monstrous femininity; virgin whore dichotomy; Bram Stoker; Dracula;

    Abstract : This paper analyses the characters Mina and Lucy in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, showing how they are juxtaposed in terms of femininity. By using feminist criticism and the concepts of the angel in the house, monstrous femininity, and the virgin/whore dichotomy, this paper explores how Mina represents the self-sacrificing, supportive, and wifely angel in the house, while Lucy represents the sexual, disobedient, and powerful monstrous female. READ MORE

  6. 5. Angels Without Wings – The Feminine Ideal and its Consequences in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen” and Munro’s “Too Much Happiness”

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Emma Nilsson; [2017]
    Keywords : The Angel in the House; Woolf; To the Lighthouse; Lessing; To Room Nineteen ; Munro; Too Much Happiness ; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : In this essay, the feminine ideals in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen” and Alice Munro’s “Too Much Happiness” are analysed and compared to the ideal of the Angel in the House – an ideal that originates from Coventry Patmore’s poem The Angel in the House and was popularised by Virginia Woolf’s paper “Professions for Women”. In addition, the consequences of this ideal for the characters of Mrs Ramsey, Susan and Sofia are discussed. READ MORE