Essays about: "historical novels"

Showing result 31 - 35 of 38 essays containing the words historical novels.

  1. 31. Contrasting Attitudes Toward Marriage in Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth Bennet's Disregard for the Contemporary Marital Conventions

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Sektionen för lärande och miljö

    Author : Elin Blom; [2015]
    Keywords : Marital views; marriage; conventions; social status; Pride and Prejudice; Elizabeth Bennet; 18th century; 19th century; feminism; old historicism; liberalism;

    Abstract : Through a liberal feminist perspective, this essay investigates the unconventional marital views of the fictional character Elizabeth Bennet. These are analyzed and compared to the traditional marital opinions of the novel's social environment. READ MORE

  3. 32. Re-Imagining the Victorian Woman: Female Representations in Four Neo-Victorian Novels from 1990 to 2010

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Guðrún Valdimarsdóttir; [2015]
    Keywords : optimism.; nostalgia; authorship; fictional autobiography; Women s writing; Sexuality; Morgan; Starling; Byatt; Waters; Women in fiction; Historical fiction; Fiction; Neo-Victorianism; Neo-Victorian; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Neo-Victorian literature is a subgenre of historical fiction that is set during the reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 until 1901. There are divergent opinions on the emergence of the genre; however, the time frame established in this dissertation spans from 1990 until the present moment. READ MORE

  4. 33. Will To Appear

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Paul Kraus; [2015]
    Keywords : Bret Easton Ellis; American Psycho; Literary Analysis; Critical Analysis; Deleuze; Foucault; Control Society; Discipline; William S. Burroughs; Dante; Augustine; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This paper presents an opportunity for the uncertainty that has plagued the novel's criticism to appear as absences in the body of historical knowledge, particularly regarding the notion of life after death. Taking appearance (eg. READ MORE

  5. 34. Wollstonecraft's Mary and Maria: Creating Feminist Propaganda through Fiction

    University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Emma Knutsson; [2013]
    Keywords : Mary Wollstonecraft; feminist propaganda;

    Abstract : This essay attempts to define Mary Wollstonecraft’s Mary: A Fiction and Maria or The Wrongs of Woman as early feminist propaganda from its historical perspective. Initially, feministic values as well as propaganda are connected to the eighteenth century with the help of contemporary scholars. READ MORE

  6. 35. Realistic Fantasy or Fantastic Realism: On Defining the Genre in Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Carl-William Norrmo Ersgård; [2011]
    Keywords : alternative history; magic; genre; Fantasy; Realism; historical novels; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : .... READ MORE