Sökning: "Victorian"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 108 uppsatser innehållade ordet Victorian.

  1. 1. Cultural Clash and Gender Roles : Exploring the Quest for Equality in Jane Eyre and Things Fall Apart

    Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Författare :Anne M Johansson; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Gender; cultural clash; equality; religion; colonialism; Genus; kulturkrock; jämställdhet; religion; kolonialism;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this essay is to analyze the intersectionality between themes of cultural clash and gender roles within the novels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, accentuating their common quest for equality. This essay offers a historical and cultural analysis, divulging the gender norms prevalent in Victorian England and pre-colonial Nigeria, serving as a backstage to the characters’ adaptations and struggles. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Fängslad skönhet : En ikonografisk/ikonologisk analys av Julia Margaret Camerons fotografi The Rosebud Garden of Girls

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för musik och bild (MB)

    Författare :Linnéa Lilja; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Julia Margaret Cameron; 1860-talet; ikonografi; ikonologi; Panofsky; kvinnlighetens rum; kvinnlig maskerad; iscensatt fotografi; The Rosebud Garden of Girls; fotografi; viktorianska eran; prerafaeliterna; dräktreform; Griselda Pollock; Leena-Maija Rossi; Alfred Tennyson; Maud; Sandro Botticelli; La Primavera; allegori; blommor som kvinnliga koder; konventioner; normer; ideal; kvinnoförtryck;

    Sammanfattning : This study aims to analyze the motif of Julia Margaret Cameron’s photograph The Rosebud Garden of Girls from 1868 regarding its literary sources, codes and how the women are depicted. The purpose is to find out whether the photograph romanticize or challenge the Victorian conventions. LÄS MER

  4. 3. UR EN KUNGS IDYLL : En ord- och bildstudie av Alfred Tennysons diktsamling, illustrerad av Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Författare :Lizette Lönnhammar; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale; Alfred Tennyson; kung Arthur; prerafaeliterna; Idylls of the King; bokillustration; ord- och bildstudie;

    Sammanfattning : The 19th century's Victorian England revived interest in medieval traditions and myths, including King Arthur and the knights of the round table. British artist Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale painted a set of watercolor illustrations that were published in an edition of Idylls of the King, A collection of poems about the legend of King Arthur, written by Lord Alfred Tennyson. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Serious Triviality : A Serious Societal Critique in a Trivial Setting in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest

    Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Författare :Fredrik Zadig; [2023]
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    Sammanfattning : In the late Victorian era, the British upper-class seemed to have set up their own standard of morals where truthfulness and religious conviction gave way for manners and appearance. Oscar Wilde was an outspoken socialist and talented author who shared his critique towards the ills of this society within his literary works. LÄS MER

  7. 5. “Human Spiders”: Intellectual Observers, Degeneration and Darwinism in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Författare :Maja Loberg; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Degeneration; Fin de Siècle; Literature; Darwinism; H.G. Wells; The Time Machine; Intellectual Observer; Victorian literature; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : H.G. Wells’ novella The Time Machine (1895) tells the story of The Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. There, he encounters two evolutionary progressions of humanity. LÄS MER