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11. A Contemporary Victorian Patriarchy : A Gender Studies Approach to Gender Nonconformity as a Response to Patriarchal Oppression in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärandeSammanfattning : This thesis examines female gender nonconformity as a behaviour in response to Victorian patriarchal oppression in the female protagonist of Charlotte Brönte's bildungsroman Jane Eyre. Gender nonconforming behaviour is depicted as behaviour that does not obey gender roles or expectations, linking the responsive quality of such behaviours to the traits of hegemonic masculinity exerted by the male characters who represent and perpetuate a patriarchal system: St John Rivers and Edward Rochester. LÄS MER
12. Gender Construction in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre : A Comparison
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraSammanfattning : This essay analyses and compares gender construction in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. The focus is on the construction of the female and male gender of selected female and male characters. LÄS MER
13. Den viktorianska guvernanten -En komparativ karaktärsstudie av tre guvernanter
Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskapSammanfattning : Den här studien undersöker tre guvernanter ur den viktorianska guvernantgenren, som även kan förstås som den viktorianska guvernantromanen: Jane i Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë, 2014), Den okända kvinnan i När skruven dras åt (Henry James, 2013) och Martha Leigh i Guvernanten på Mellyn (Victoria Holt, 2018). Syftet med studien är att studera hur respektive guvernant förstår sitt psykiska och fysiska välmående. LÄS MER
14. Transformative literature transferring power: An analysis of authorial control in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Circe by Madeline Miller and Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/EngelskaSammanfattning : By analysing three different works of transformative literature, this thesis aims to explore the different ways in which power may express itself in the context of literature. Wide Sargasso Sea, Circe and Hag-Seed are three novels that, while remaining similar in that they are rewrites of canonised literature such as Jane Eyre, The Odyssey, and The Tempest, are different enough to provide a wide array of examples of rewrites. LÄS MER
15. The Moral of the Story: Growing up in A Gossip’s Story, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre and Little Women
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/EngelskaSammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
