Essays about: "neo-Victorian novel"

Found 3 essays containing the words neo-Victorian novel.

1. 1. 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

3. 2. Steeling the Show : A Comparative Analysis Between Victorian and Neo- Victorian Heroines From a Feminist Perspective in Terms of Gender Equality

   University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping

   Author : Marcus Asplund Brattberg; [2014]
   Keywords : Blood in the Skies; G.D. Falksen; comparative literature; Victorian; Neo-Victorian;

   Abstract : In this essay, the concept of gender equality is explored in terms of progressive heroines in neo-Victorian literature. In order to elucidate in what way a progression has been made, the comparative analysis is predicated upon second wave feminism. READ MORE

4. 3. Deo-Victorian Society in the Neo-Victorian Novel: A Study of Sensory Perceptions in Michel Faber´s The Crimson Petal and the White

   University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

   Author : Pepita Eskelin; [2011]
   Keywords : Michel Faber; The Crimson Petal and the White; urban hygiene; smell; vision; sensory perceptions; neo-Victorian novel; prostitution;

   Abstract : This paper explores the contemporary reader´s fascination with the Victorian period focusing on Michel Faber´s neo-Victorian novel The Crimson Petal and the White (2002). By comparing and contrasting various literary elements that link the Victorian novel to contemporary neo-Victorian fiction it simultaneously shows the similarities and differences between the nineteenth-century Victorian sensorium and that of the present day. READ MORE