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6. “A feminist subversion of fairy tales” : Écriture féminine, gender stereotypes, and the rejection of patriarchy in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber
University essay from Södertörns högskola/EngelskaAbstract : Fairy tales are usually described as short narratives that end with happily-ever-afters, imposing patriarchal ideologies. The Grimm’s fairy tales serve as the foundation of many other stories which promote stereotypes like woman passiveness, submissive beauty, while men are put on a pedestal for being active and violent at the same time. READ MORE
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7. Gothic Masculinity: An Exploration of Masculinity in The Mysteries of Udolpho and Uncle Silas
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : By analysing two different Female Gothic novels, this thesis aims to explore the different ways in which masculinity is portrayed within the Female Gothic literary tradition, more specifically the Early Gothic and Victorian Gothic due to constraints in scope. The novels chosen, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and Uncle Silas (1864), are in many ways representative and serve as typical Female Gothic narratives but differ in when they were written and how they utilise gothic tropes to discuss and critique the society within which they were written. READ MORE
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8. National identity in Sonia Nimr’s children’s book Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : In this thesis, depending on Benedict Anderson’s Studies of nationalism in his book The Imagined Communities, I will prove that in her historical fiction for children, Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands, the Palestinian writer Sonia Nimr is reviving and reforming Arab national identity. Anderson identifies the nation as a group imagined by its members; the people who perceive and identify themselves as equal members in this group. READ MORE
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9. The Moral of the Story: Growing up in A Gossip’s Story, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre and Little Women
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : In nineteenth-century literature, the heroine is often a young woman growing up and learning about the restrictions of gender and society. If she learns from the mistakes she is inevitably going to make, she may be rewarded … with a suitor? How does this correlate, who are the heroines and who are the suitors? This essay aims to answer these questions, along with evaluating parents in literature and assessing their relationships with their daughters to see if that has any effects on their marital outcomes. READ MORE
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10. Harlot or Heroine? The portrayal of Anne Boleyn in three contemporary historical novels written by women : A comparative study of The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory, The Lady in the Tower by Jean Plaidy, and Queen of Subtleties by Suzannah Dunn.
University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleAbstract : .... READ MORE
