Sökning: "Elizabeth Braddon"

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  1. 1. Beautiful corruption: the portrayal of beauty in The picture of Dorian Gray and Lady Audley's secret

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Karoline Müller; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Lady Audley’s Secret; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Fiction; 19th century; beauty; corruption; Oscar Wilde; Elizabeth Braddon; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : The novels Lady Audley’s Secret and The Picture of Dorian Gray both feature a beautiful but corrupted character as protagonist, the corruption of whom only gets revealed slowly to the reader while the fascination for the characters’ beauty is vanishing. This essay is investigating how this beauty is used in the two novels respectively and gives a general overview of contemporary readers’ perception of characters, based on 19th-century novels and reviews of the time. LÄS MER